GUWAHATI: The ruling BJP and opposition parties Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) are up in arms against the NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela’s recent suggestion to the Supreme Court on curtailing down the numbers of documents for filing claims for inclusion by persons excluded from the final draft registry.While the BJP has already expressed its unhappiness over the suggestion for reducing the list of documents from 15 to 10, the Congress has termed the recommendation as “malafide motive.”BJP state leaders including president Ranjeet Kumar Dass will raise the matter with central leaders as well as with the Union home minister Rajnath Singh during the two-day national executive that started on Saturday. BJP on Friday took potshot at Hajela saying that situation has been made complicated for lakhs of citizens who were left out of the draft NRC.Leader of the opposition and Congress legislator, Debabrata Saikia on Saturday has demanded action against Hajela for his proposal to the apex court to dispense with the 1951 NRC and pre-1971 voters’ list as documents to be submitted for inclusion of over 40 Lakh names left out from the final draft NRC released on July 30.“The government and several stakeholders framed the modalities for updating the NRC. The eligibility criteria specifically listed the 1951 NRC and pre-1971 voters’ lists as the first two among important documents for the purpose of verification. By suggesting dropping these two documents it shows malafide motive and an arbitrary recommendation,” Saikia said.In a report submitted to the Supreme Court recently, the NRC coordinator stated that ten documents out of a list of 15 documents can be relied upon for inclusion in the NRC subjected to the authenticity of the documents being certified by the relevant issuing authority.Along with the 1951 NRC and pre-1971 voters’ lists, citizenship certificate, refugee registration certificate and ration cards (as supporting documents) were also suggested to be dropped for filing claims of inclusion in the NRC.Saikia asked what will happen to those Indian citizens currently excluded from the draft NRC who did not possess any of the 10 documents suggested by Hajela, but have the 1951 NRC and pre-1971 voters’ list.“If we go by Hajela’s suggestion then Indian citizens will be non-nationals if they do not have the 10 documents,” Saikia said.AIUDF said the suggestion to drop five documents for filing claims is tantamount to setting different criteria for those excluded and included in the draft NRC.“The present exercise is about updating the NRC of 1951. Then why should one not rely on the 1951 NRC documents? What is the reason for setting different criteria for those included and for 40.07 lakh people who could not make it to the draft NRC,” AIUDF general secretary Aminul Islam asked.