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Who is lying on NRC, Shah or Rajnath, asks Congress

  •   Tue, Jul 31 2018 10:34:55 PM

New Delhi, Jul 31 (IANS): As BJP President Amit Shah said the Congress did not have the courage to implement NRC in Assam, while this government had the courage to do it, the Congress on Tuesday condemned it and asked who is lying, whether it is Shah or Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who ascribed the process to the supervision of Supreme Court.

Slamming Shah for his statement in the Rajya Sabha, accusing the opposition of allegedly trying to protect the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, the party said they believe in spreading malice and creating divisions in society. It also urged the government not to play politics over the "sensitive issue".

"Amit Shah and company are the virulent inheritors of the British East India Company. Divide and rule, spread venomous hate and decimate India's brotherhood to garner votes is their principle agenda," said Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala.

"On one hand, Amit Shah and Co. seek fake credit for National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and on the other hand, the Narendra Modi government brings in the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, both of which are contrarian in spirit of one another. Will Amit Shah answer that?" he asked.

The leader said Rajnath Singh ascribes the NRC process to supervision of Supreme Court, while Amit Shah falsifies the statement of his Home Minister made in Parliament by seeking credit for implementing the NRC.

"Who is lying - Rajnath Singh or Sh Amit Shah," asked Surjewala.

"NRC was aimed at reflecting the aspirations of Assamese people and not as a tool to divide the society, which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is making it out to be. History will never pardon the ilk of Modi-Shah for distorting the entire process for opportunistic political gains," he added.

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said the opposition has been demanding a structured debate or discussion on the developments after the release of the draft list of the NRC.

"It was important for the opposition to register its concern with regard to disenfranchisement of our own citizen and India's own citizens who have been from other states or from Assam as indigenous people should be rendered refugees in our country," said Sharma.

"This is also the humanitarian aspect. BJP leadership is deliberately giving it a mischievous twist. What has been said by them, we reject it in entirety. We are one country. The people from various states go and live in other states of the country either for work, business or marriage. They can't be termed as non-citizens. That is one of the concerns," he added.

The leader said a large numbers of those who have been affected are Indian citizens. "It is the duty of the government to see that there is justice and people are not denied what is rightfully their claim as citizens of the country."

"The opposition leaders, beginning from Ghulam Nabi Azadji, raised their concerns in Rajya Sabha and wanted a government response on the issue.

"No leader in the opposition had levelled any allegation or said anything to provoke the government. Today's disruption was entirely because of the provocative statement which was unwarranted and made by BJP leaders. Their statement was in direct conflict with what the Home Minister's.

"It is now for the Home Minister to clarify whether he stands by the statement that he made yesterday (Monday) in the Lok Sabha or he agrees with the statement that has been made in the Rajya Sabha by BJP chief Amit Shah. That truth must come out," said Sharma.
  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Aug 01 2018

    Last 4 years we are familiar with all FEKU's ...

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Wed, Aug 01 2018

    Whole exercise full of faults and fictitious as genuine and valid documents” such as Passport and Aadhar Cards are also ignored as proof of citizenship. Terming it mischievous attempt to exclude around 4 million Indian citizens from Assam’s National Register of Citizens.
    Relatives of India’s fifth president, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, are struggling to establish that they are Indian citizens.
    The family of Ziauddin Ali Ahmed, the late president’s nephew, was not able to apply to be included in Assam’s National Register of Citizenship, which is currently being updated for the first time since 1951 in a bid to detect undocumented migrants.
    Ziauddin is the son of the late president’s younger brother, Ehtramuddin Ali Ahmed. Ehtramuddin and Fakhruddin’s father, Zalnur Ali Ahmed, is thought to be the first Assamese person to obtain a medicine degree. He was employed by the Army and retired as a colonel.
    If it is not a tragedy than what that families of freedom fighters; descendants of those great souls who had worked hard to confront the accession of areas of Assam state to then East Pakistan; families of former Deputy Speaker of Assam State Assembly; family of former Director General of Police and families of those government servants who had worked for the state government for more than three decades and are getting pensions after retirement are among other such familiar cases who find their name excluded in the proposed NRC list.
    it is a deep-rooted conspiracy to de-enfranchise Muslim voters in Assam as this north east state boasts of having the next highest Muslims concentration (around 35 percent) after Jammu and Kashmir.
    ‘All parties should make their stand on Bangladeshi immigrants clear,’ says Amit Shah on NRC: The Supreme Court ordered the Centre not to take coercive action against people left out of the draft. Meanwhile, the names of two Assam MLAs were not included in the document.
    NRC is the next 'Ayodhya' will be used in 2019 elections.
    Jai Hind

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