Barpeta Hopes NRC Will Heal Its Bitter Wounds
The Hindu|August 05, 2018

Kin of victims on both sides of the agitation await closure

Rahul Karmakar
Barpeta Hopes NRC Will Heal Its Bitter Wounds

Two memorials some 30 km apart have for long de­fined the psychological divide in the Muslim­majority Barpeta, a district that has spawned quite a few  agitations in post­Independence Assam.

Every day, Kalimun Nessa wipes the dirt off the memorial outside her house at Khandakar Para village, which lists her second son, Maidul Islam  Molla among the four martyrs of the 2010 anti­NRC protests.

Maidul was 25 when he became a ‘martyr’ of an agitation spearheaded by the All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) against a pilot project of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in 2010.

The outsider tag

The police had opened fie on hundreds of protestors who allegedly tried to storm the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Barpeta on July 21 that year.  Maidul was hit by a bullet in his chest.

“I would often ask Allah why Maidul, the second of my four sons had to die that day. The NRC has made me realise he died so that 10 others would live  without the burden of the Bangladeshi tag,” Kalimun Nessa, 62, said. 

Still retain faith

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