#WATCH Trinamool Congress MP and MLA delegation detained at Silchar airport #NRCAssam https://t.co/G8l2l3OEFp — ANI (@ANI) 1533203460000

These atrocities being done, aren't only being condemned, I think this is beginning of the end. They are frustrated… https://t.co/3pKY4z0BLB — ANI (@ANI) 1533209804000

Our delegation was detained at Silchar airport. It is our democratic right to meet people, this is a super emergenc… https://t.co/neXfVBEvWL — ANI (@ANI) 1533203106000

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GUWAHATI: A Trinamool Congress delegation which reached Silchar on Thursday to assess the situation in Assam in the wake of the publication of the complete draft of the NRC was stopped at the airport. The Assam government restricted the eight-member TMC delegation to the security area of Silchar airport .Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee claimed that members of the TMC delegation, including women, who went to Silchar, were manhandled at the airport there and accused the BJP of imposing "super emergency" in the country.TMC has strongly objected to the second draft of the NRC published earlier this week. Names of over 40 lakh people in Assam do not figure in the draft NRC, which is being prepared to identify illegal migrants in the state.The Cachar district administration has clamped Section 144 of CrPC in Silchar prohibiting gathering of more than five persons.Hundreds of TMC supporters shouted anti-government slogans outside the airport.“The team won’t be allowed to leave the airport and we will send them back on their return flight to Kolkata,” a government official said.The team comprising MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag, Nadimul Haque and Arpita Ghosh, West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim and legislator Mohua Moitra, who were to address senior citizens at Silchar, arrived at Silchar from Kolkata at 1.05pm.Congress legislator from Assam, Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, who was one of the invitees to the TMC meeting said he is at the airport and that the TMC delegation is not allowed to come out.“My personal view is that the decision by the Assam government not allowing the TMC delegates to come out and meet the people is wrong. This was our chance to tell them that whatever TMC and Mamata Banerjee have been saying about NRC in Assam is all wrong," Purkayastha said."We could have shown them the real picture that there is absolute peace after NRC publication. They would have known that the 40 lakh people left out of the draft NRC are not just form one linguistic or religious community. They are not considered as illegal migrants. Everybody is getting a chance to file claims,” he added.In Silchar, the nerve centre of the Barak Valley, the All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students’ Association warned that Mamata Banerjee’s utterances could trigger unrest in Assam. It alleged that thousands of Bengali-speaking people couldn’t find a place in the NRC because of the West Bengal government’s failure to verify their documents in time. Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi are the three districts that comprise the Barak Valley.Assam Police, too, were worried about the inclusion of Bongaon MP Mamata Thakur, who represents the Matuas (or Namasudras, recognized as a Scheduled Caste) who form the second-largest segment of people who migrated to India from erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, after Partition. Assam also has a sizeable number of Namasudras.