Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compliance with international law of the proposals by the Assam State Government to remove Indian citizenship from Muslims in that state who cannot provide proof that they were resident in that country before 1971.

​We have not made such an assessment, but our Deputy High Commission in Kolkata is closely monitoring the updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam.