New Delhi: With Assam on the edge ahead of the publication of the draft NRC, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday sought to dispel apprehensions and said “genuine” Indians missing from the citizenship register would get enough opportunities to incorporate their names.
Massive preparations are in place to ensure peace and no one will be allowed to take law in their hands after publication of the first draft of the National Register of Citizens, a list of the state’s citizens, on December 31, the Chief Minister said.
“No one should have any apprehensions. If the name of a genuine Indian citizen is missing in the part draft of the NRC, he or she will get proper chance to incorporate it,” Sonowal said.
The Chief Minister also made it clear that the government would tolerate no violence. “Central forces are being deployed across the state. No untoward incident will be allowed,” he said.
A massive exercise to update the NRC is being carried out in Assam following a directive of the Supreme Court in 2005.
However, the exercise started as late as 2015 under the Congress regime. It got a major push only after the BJP came to power with illegal immigration from Bangladesh as a poll plank.
