{"id":26181,"date":"2025-03-07T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26181"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:45:33","slug":"d-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/d-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>D-Voter Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Assam&#8217;s opposition recently raised concerns over the plight of \u2018D\u2019 (Doubtful) voters in Assam, demanding the closure of the state\u2019s only detention centre, now termed a transit camp, and the tabling of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) report in the Assembly.<\/p>\n<h2>About D-Voter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>D-voters or <strong>doubtful voters,<\/strong> are a category of <strong>voters in Assam <\/strong>who <strong>couldn&#8217;t give evidence to prove their Indian nationality<\/strong> and whose c<strong>ases are pending with <\/strong>the <strong>Foreigners Tribunals or <\/strong>who have been <strong>declared foreigners by the Tribunal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The D-voter category was introduced by the Election Commission of India in 1997.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Because their Indian citizenship has not been verified, doubtful voters are <strong>not allowed to vote in elections.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are also <strong>not permitted to run for office<\/strong> in the nation&#8217;s elections.<\/li>\n<li>However, \u2018doubtful voter\u2019 or \u2018doubtful citizenship\u2019 have <strong>not been defined in<\/strong> the <strong>Citizenship Act, 1955, or the Citizenship Rules of 2003.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Citizenship Rules, 2003,<\/strong> was framed under the provisions of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>rules framed in 2003<\/strong> <strong>list out the steps to be followed fo<\/strong>r the <strong>preparation of the <\/strong>National Population Register (<strong>NPR<\/strong>) <strong>and <\/strong>the National Register of Indian Citizens (<strong>NRIC)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>only been stated that <\/strong>the <strong>Local Registrar will include the details of individuals whose citizenship is in doubt<\/strong> with an &#8220;<strong>appropriate remark <\/strong>in the population register <strong>for further enquiry&#8221; <\/strong>under subsection 4 of section 4, which deals with the production of the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC).<\/li>\n<li><strong>A family or individual is notifiedin a specific pro forma<\/strong> as soon as the verification process concludes, whether they have been classified as a dubious citizen (D-Category).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Before deciding<\/strong> whether or not to add their name to the register, <strong>they are also given the opportunity to be heard by the Taluk or Sub-district Registrar of Citizenship.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Registrar has ninety days <\/strong>to complete and justify his findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>marking as a doubtful voter<\/strong> is a temporary measure and<strong> cannot be prolonged.<\/strong> Within a specific timeframe, a decision needs to be made.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>According to the documentation provided, if it is determined that the individual is a foreign national or an illegal immigrant, they may be deported or placed in a detention centre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>D- Voters can also apply to have their names added to the NRC.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They will be <strong>included only after<\/strong> they get <strong>clearance from the Foreigners Tribuna<\/strong>ls <strong>and<\/strong> their <strong>names<\/strong> are <strong>removed from electoral rolls under<\/strong> the <strong>\u2018D\u2019 category.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>D-Voter FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the National Population Register (NPR)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. NPR is a register of usual residents of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The NRC is a registry of all Indian citizens, mandated by a 2003 amendment to the Citizenship Act of 1955.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is a Foreigners Tribunal (FT)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. FTs are quasi-judicial bodies formed through the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order of 1964, to let local authorities in a State refer a person suspected to be a foreigner to tribunals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatodayne.in\/assam\/story\/assam-opposition-demands-nrc-report-closure-of-detention-centre-over-d-voters-crisis-1179764-2025-03-05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ITN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-voters in Assam are individuals unable to prove Indian nationality, with cases pending or already declared foreigners by the Foreigners Tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}