GUWAHATI: BJP has asked the state and central governments to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court countering National Register of Citizens (NRC) coordinator Prateek Hajela’s proposals in the apex court to cut down the list of documents from 15 to 10 for those who seek to claim inclusion in the registry.The updating process of NRC is monitored by the Supreme Court. The final draft was released on July 30 with names of 40.07 Lakh out of 3.29 crore applicants were left out.BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said here on Monday that the suggestion for dropping some of the documents including the 1951 NRC was “self-contradictory, confusing and done without any consultation with the stakeholders.”Dass said the state and central government should submit its affidavit against the proposal before September 19, the date for next hearing in the Supreme Court on NRC.“Already many Indian citizens were excluded from the final draft NRC that was released on July 30. The suggestion to reduce the number of documents to 10 from 15 will very difficult for many of the citizens to get their names included,” Dass said.In a report submitted to the Supreme Court recently, the NRC coordinator stated that 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. The five documents that proposed to be dropped were the 1951 NRC, pre-1971 voters’ lists, citizenship certificate, refugee registration certificate and ration cards (as supporting documents).“The suggestion is self-contradictory because the updating process of NRC started on the basis of 15 documents. Now it is proposed to do with 10 documents. Our government is fully committed to bring out a foolproof NRC, but leaving out genuine Indian citizens will be a great injustice,” Dass added.Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) are also on the same page with BJP in opposing the proposal for curtailing the list of documents.At the two-day BJP’s national executive meeting in New Delhi from Saturday and Sunday, Dass said that he has raised with president Amit Shah as well as with Union home minister Rajnath Singh and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal the difficulty of many Indian citizens to get their names included after their names did not figure in the final draft.“These Indian citizens mostly belongs to the Gorkhas, Hindi-speaking, Bengali and indigenous communities,” Dass said. Ensuring every genuine Indian citizens’ names are included in the final NRC was one of the resolutions passed by the national executive meeting.