Overview

• Momina Bibi has been summoned three times by an Assam foreigners’ tribunal since October and has declared she will not respond or travel to Assam to prove her citizenship.
• She insists all her identity documents—voter ID, ration card and others—are registered in West Bengal and says she is not Bangladeshi.
• Trinamool Congress district leaders personally visited her home and pledged legal assistance to block the tribunal notices.
• BJP district officials maintain the notices are valid based on her past residency in Assam and accuse Trinamool Congress of fomenting fear about the NRC.
• Her case follows similar summons to two other Cooch Behar residents and underscores the wider controversy over extending Assam’s NRC into neighbouring West Bengal.