Earlier this month, political violence erupted in Eastern India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won key elections amid allegations of voter suppression targeting Muslims.

That campaign was marked by allegations of anti-Muslim hate speech, calls for violence, and a controversial citizenship crackdown targeting Muslims in the Indian border states of Assam and West Bengal.

Producer Zheba Varsi reports from Assam on families now fighting to prove they belong in the only

country they've ever known.

In this remote village in northeast India, three generations of one family could soon become stateless.

The patriarch, we'll call him Ramzan, to protect his identity,

is a husband yearning for his wife,

who was taken from him because of their ethnicity.

I can't explain how my days are going.

I don't know what to do, how to live.

I'm barely surviving without her.

Ramzan's wife is an immigration detention.

This is the first time in 50 years that they've been separated.

There's is a love story written across time.

Born and raised on this land, just years after India gained independence from British colonial

rule in 1947, they grew up side by side.

We loved each other all our lives. We've had no fights all these years.

We were each other's peace.

But that peace was shattered when state authorities labeled both of them doubtful citizens.

In the key east and Indian states of Assam and West Bengal, both bordering predominantly Muslim Bangladesh, authorities have asked tens of thousands of residents like them to prove their citizenship.

India shares a 2,500 mile border with Bangladesh, a country that once was a part of pre-independence India.

In recent years, human rights activists say Assam's administration, ruled by Indian Prime Minister

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