No Indian citizen will be left out: Rajnath Singh on Assam NRC row
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IBNS): Amid controversy over Assam's National Register of Citizen (NRC) that excluded over four million people, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday assured that no Indian citizen will be left out.
Singh made the comment in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the parliament.
He has been quoted by NDTV, "No action will be taken against anyone who can successfully prove their Indian citizenship. I assure everyone that no Indian citizen will be left out. There is absolutely no need to worry."
Singh also said the NRC is a draft and not the final list.
Contradicting to Singh's latest comment, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president and Rajya Sabha MP, Amit Shah, had earlier said people whose names are not present in the final list of Assam's NRC are immigrants.
The second and final list of Assam's NRC was released on July 30.
The ruling BJP faced wrath from several opposition parties with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief (TMC), Mamata Banerjee, even accusing the saffron outfit of leading to a situation of "civil war and bloodbath". Her remarks led to the filing of an FIR in Assam by the BJP youth wing.
The Assam Accord (1985) , which is the basis of the NRC, was signed between the Government of India led by Rajiv Gandhi and the leaders of the Assam Movement in New Delhi on 15 August 1985 after a six-year agitation demanding identification and deportation of illegal immigrants by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU).
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