Shawdesh Desk: Nineteen lakh people have been left out in the final National Register of Citizens or NRC -a list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from Assam.

Coming just weeks after the centre struck down Jammu and Kashmir’s decades-old autonomy, the NRC too is expected to go down as one of the biggest moves in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term. Security has been tightened in Assam, with tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police posted across the north-eastern state bordering Bangladesh.