No Indians to be excluded from NRC |
Addressing the Northeast Students` Festival in the nation`s capital to welcome new students from the region to Delhi, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said the NRC was necessary to identify Indian citizens and weed out illegal immigrants. At an event organised by `My Home India`, an NGO founded by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sunil Deodhar, Singh said it is absolutely necessary to know who are Indians and who are foreigners,as he asserted that the update of the NRC, a list of Assam`s citizens, was carried out under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court.Deodhar was the BJP in-charge in Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s constituency Varanasi during 2014 Lok Sabha elections and a key architect of BJP`s victory in last assembly elections in Tripura. The update of NRC, the massive Supreme Court-monitored exercise to identify genuine Indian nationals living in Assam excluded over 40 lakh people from the draft list published on July 30, creating a huge political controversy.
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