Guwahati:
The State unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has suggested that all those who were living in Assam on the day the Constitution was adopted or whose names were included in the National Register of Citizens, 1951 or electoral roll of the first general elections be treated as Assamese people.
The party mooted this definition of Assamese in response to suggestions sought by the Committee of Ministers constituted by the State government for determining the definition of Assamese people for providing constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards in accordance with clause 6 of the Assam Accord.
Senior CPI leader Promode Gogoi said the definition suggested by his party would not include the streams of immigrant settlers who came and settled in the State from 1951 till 1971.
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