Govt hardens NRC stance Citizens’ exclusion could lead to civil war in country, warns Mamata
ple who were not in it would be given an opportunity to appeal. The BJP chief spoke in Parliament and at a press conference at the BJP headquarters after his speech was disrupted.
Shah said the NRC was the “soul of the Assam accord”, a pact signed in 1985 by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and organisations campaigning for the identification and deportation of illegal immigrants from the states. Shah claimed the accord had remained unimplemented because the Congress lacked the courage to enforce it. NEW DELHI: Delivering a stern warning that the National Register of Citizens (NRC), whose final draft has excluded four million people of Assam, may “lead to civil war”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday called for the Narendra Modi government’s ouster after the 2019 national elections.
Citing the draft NRC, a spate of mob lynchings and alleged crimes against Dalits and minorities, she demanded a change of power. “That is why the country needs a change. And it must change in 2019,” she said at a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) conclave in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Later, she met home minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the NRC issue. She asked Singh to amend the NRC Bill or introduce a new one. She informed Singh that information was being spread that NRC will also be implemented in Bengal.