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BJP will implement NRC across India, will remove all infiltrators, except Hindus and Buddhists, says Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah has said that his party will ensure that National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) is implemented across India and ‘every single infiltrator will be removed from the country.’
He added that all Buddhist and Hindu refugees will be identified and Indian nationality will be given to them.
BJP President Amit Shah earlier today in Darjeeling: We will ensure implementation of NRC in the entire country. BJP will remove every single infiltrator from the country. All Buddhists & Hindu refugees will be identified&Indian nationality will be given to them. #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/owR1p4U1BS
— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2019
Addressing a rally in Darjeeling district in West Bengal, Shah said, ” “We have promised in our manifesto that once Narendra Modi forms government once again, we will implement National Register of Citizens in the entire country,” Shah said. “We will remove every single infiltrator from the country. And all the Hindu and Buddhist refugees…we will find each of them, give them Indian citizenship and make them residents here.”Earlier in the day, Shah had said that after forming the Government in New Delhi, they will remove Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.
In February, Shah had said that the Modi Government brought in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in order to prevent Assam from becoming another Kashmir.
Recently, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that if the Citizen (Amendment) Bill 2016 is not passed, it will be a surrender to the ‘philosophy of Jinnah.
Sarma also added that the purpose of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was to “detect Jinnahs”.
In the north-eastern state of Assam, India has published a list which strips four million people of their citizenship. It says the process is to root out hordes of illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
The list, named as the National Register of Citizens (NRC), is a list of people who can prove they came to the state by 24 March 1971, when Bangladesh was created.
The list has sparked fears of targeted hunting towards ethnic minorities in Assam. However, officials have said that no one will face immediate deportation and that the option of an appeal will be available to all.
