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Congress had no courage to implement NRC, says Amit Shah

House was adjourned briefly but had to be adjourned again for the day when it reassembled as the opposition parties members continued.

New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at the erstwhile UPA governments charging the Congress with not having the courage to identify illegal migrants in Assam, an exercise which was to be conducted as part of the accord signed by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. He sought to know whether the Congress wanted to protect the “illegal Bangldeshis”.

The National Register of Citizen (NRC) exercise in Assam rocked Parliament on Tuesday and saw the BJP and opposition parties charging each other of misusing the issue for political gains. Countering oppositions’ charges, the BJP asked them to first clarify their stand on illegal migrants from Bangladesh and said the Supreme Court monitored exercise is being implemented to identify Indian citizens and asked the opposition parties to give priority to the national security than vote-bank politics.

The BJP also asserted that the apex court monitored exercise will be implemented “to the last full stop” as the party stands for national security and Indians’ rights. In Rajya Sabha, which saw the Chair agreeing to the suspension of the Question Hour to take up discussion on the final draft of the NRC in Assam, BJP president and member of the House, Amit Shah took a jibe at the erstwhile Congress-led governments for not showing the courage to identify illegal migrants in Assam in accordance with the 1985 accord.

As the Chair permitted the issue to be taken up, Assam’s Bodoland People’s Front (BPF)’s Biswajit Daimary claimed that there was no unrest in the state over the NRC issue as the apex court is monitoring the implementation and said names not included in the NRC list were due to lack of documentary proof and such people have been given time to submit the documents.

“The Assam Accord was signed by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1985..this NRC is the soul of that accord which your governments could not implement because of lack of courage...but we are implementing it ....of the over 40 lakh people (whose name did not get enrolled in the NRC) how many are Bangladesh (illegal migrants)...who are you trying to protect,” asked the BJP president Shah leading to massive protest by the Congress and Trinamul members. House was adjourned briefly but had to be adjourned again for the day when it reassembled as the opposition parties members continued.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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