City
Epaper

Pan India NRC to exclude more Muslims: Badruddin Ajmal

By IANS | Updated: November 21, 2019 23:05 IST

A day after Union Home minister Amit Shah announced that pan India National Register of Citizens (NRC) will include Assam as well, Chief of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) Badruddin Ajmal said that the ruling party is unable to digest that a large number of Muslims have made it to the final NRC.

Open in App

Ajmal, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri constituency, said this on Thursday while talking to newsmen and added that the BJP is unhappy as large numbers of Bengali Hindus, Koch Rajbonshi and Buddhist people were excluded from NRC due to non acceptance of refugee certificate issued prior to 1971.

The final NRC published on August 31 this year had left 19,06,657 people outside the citizens' registry, triggering large scale unhappiness.

The BJP government in Assam has welcomed the Union Minister's announcement about a pan India NRC and said that the BJP as well as the Assam government has not accepted the final NRC published on August 31.

"BJP is not happy as large numbers of Muslims in Assam could make it to the NRC with all their relevant documents relating to their citizenship," Ajmal said terming the latest announcement as a political move to exclude more Muslims from the proposed NRC.

"Otherwise what could be the reasons for NRC again after spending about Rs 1,600 Crore for the exercise and engaging over 50,000 government employees in the exercise," he said.

The LOk Sabha MP further said that many people even died while standing in queues for NRC hearings and many committed suicides after not finding names in the draft NRC.

( With inputs from IANS )

Tags: bjpAssamAjmal
Open in App

Related Stories

MaharashtraPower Struggle in Maharashtra? Gulabrao Deokar, Satish Patil Join Ajit Pawar’s NCP Amid Mahayuti Rift

EntertainmentActor Rohit Basfore of Family Man 3 Fame Found Dead In Guwahati Forest Under Mysterious Circumstances

MumbaiMumbai: BJP Leader Kirit Somaiya Stages Protest in Mulund To Demand Removal of Illegal Loudspeakers From Mosques

MaharashtraMarathi vs Hindi Row: Raj Thackeray’s MNS Party Puts Out Provocative Posters and Intensifies Protest in Mumbai

MaharashtraNCP-SCP's Rohit Pawar Backs Uddhav Sena's Use of AI Balasaheb Thackeray, Says BJP Uses it for Their Leaders

National Realted Stories

NationalCPI-M and CM Vijayan upset with KV Thomas over his remarks

NationalAssam CM Sarma 'challenges' Rahul over Cong MP Gogoi's 'Pak links'

NationalReports on FM Sitharaman asking ADB to cut funding for Pakistan ‘untrue’: Centre

NationalNCW takes cognisance of plea by women who lost spouse, son in Murshidabad violence

NationalOdisha Police arrests two from Bengal in Rs 6 crore cyber fraud case