His comments came hours after Assam had pushed back 20 more illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Referring to this, he said, “The decision to toughen the Aadhaar issuance rules will only aid our efforts in this direction.”In April, the government had announced a crackdown on Aadhaar cardholders who did not apply to get their names included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC).Sarma had then stated that the government had stopped issuing Aadhaar to those who did not apply for NRC. He also stated that the government had prepared an action plan to detect and drive out illegal immigrants who had entered Assam over the past few years.In September last year, Sarma said that four Assam districts had more Aadhaar cardholders than their projected population. The four districts are Barpeta, Dhubri (both in lower Assam), Morigaon and Nagaon (both in central Assam). Dhubri shares a border with Bangladesh.“We found that 103.74% of people were issued Aadhaar cards in Barpeta, 103.48% in Dhubri, 101.74% in Morigaon and 100.68% in Nagaon. Definitely, suspected immigrants managed to take Aadhaar,” Sarma had stated.
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