Assam Woman, Whose Son's Suicide Raised By PM Modi In 2014, Declared Indian Citizen

Akol Rani's son Arjun Namasudra died by suicide in 2012, allegedly after a Foreigners' Tribunal declared him a foreigner

An 83-year-old woman has finally won her long battle to prove that she is an Indian citizen. Akol Rani Namasudra, a resident of Assam's Cachar district, was on Wednesday recognised as an Indian citizen by the Foreigners' Tribunal of Silchar.

Akol Rani's son Arjun Namasudra died by suicide in 2012, allegedly after a Foreigners' Tribunal declared him a foreigner despite giving the same documents to the tribunal with which his mother Akol Rani on Wednesday was declared an Indian citizen.

The BJP campaign for the 2014 general elections had raised Arjun's suicide, when the party's candidate for the Prime Minister's post then, Narendra Modi, mentioned about the tragedy.

On February 23, 2014, then BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, while addressing a rally in Assam's Cachar, had said, "Arjun didn't die for himself but for the rights of lakhs of people in detention camps. Arjun Namasudra has sacrificed his life for them."