West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday condemned the Assam government after a Foreigners Tribunal in the neighbouring state served an NRC-related notice to Uttam Kumar Brajabasi, a farmer from Dinhata in Cooch Behar. Brajabasi, a member of the Rajbanshi community, said he has lived in West Bengal for more than five decades and already holds valid Indian identity documents. Banerjee called the notice a “systematic assault on democracy,” alleging it forms part of a broader attempt by the BJP-led Assam administration to extend the National Register of Citizens process into West Bengal, where it has no jurisdiction. She urged opposition parties to unite against what she described as efforts to intimidate marginalised communities and disenfranchise voters. Officials in Assam have not publicly responded to the allegations. The episode has revived political tensions over citizenship verification in India, five years after Assam completed its controversial NRC exercise that excluded about 1.9 million people from the state’s citizenship roll.