GUWAHATI: Two former IAF officials from Assam who were involved in the Kargil war of 1999 felt dejected when their names did not make it to the NRC draft list.

Retired sergeant Samsul Haque (57), retired from the IAF in 2014. A resident of Balikuri village in Barpeta district , about 150 KM from here, Haque was posted in the Rajouri sector during Kargil where he was tasked with the crucial signal operations during the war.

"I gave my 35 years of youth for the nation and now literally begging for getting my name included in NRC so that I become a citizen," Haque, who joined IAF in 1979, said.

Haque, currently a teacher at a private school in Barpeta said his wife Nurjahan Ahmed, son Selim Ahmed and daughter Yasmin Ahmed also did not figure in the draft.

"I provided my father Fazor Ali Ahmed's 1951 NRC legacy data for inclusion of my and my family's names. I was in a shock when my family's names were missing," Haque said.

Another former IAF Sergeant Sadullah Ahmed (49) who retired in 2009 said that just because his sister Fatehmun Nessa (61) was declared a foreigner by the tribunal his name did not make it to the draft. Ahmed is from Majgaon also in Barpeta.

NRC authority barred siblings of declared foreigners from inclusion in the draft till the tribunal cleared their names.

Ahmed, who was responsible for maintenance of arrowheads of fighter jets in Bikaner during Kargil war, said it was painful to find that his name was not included just because her sister was declared as a foreigner. He said because of some mismatch in the documents his sister was declared foreigner.

Ahmed's two sons Tazzamul Sofique and Imran Rafique were also excluded from the draft.

