Guwahati: The right-wing Hindutva organization RSS is going to ask the Modi government to reintroduce the Citizenship Amendment Bill by December according to sources.
Unhappy over the NRC results that has left out 1,906,657 people allegedly a majority of Hindus, the NRC results have left many unhappy, furious.
“We have been saying that NRCNSE 2.22 % will not bear results and Assam will not be free of foreigners. The final NRC has proved this right. A large number of Hindus and other local communities have been excluded from NRC. We will insist that the Centre reintroduce the Citizenship Amendment Bill by December, immediately after the appeal at the foreigners’ tribunal is completed. This NRC cannot be final,” said a senior RSS leader who did not wish to be named.
The Citizenship bill is meant to give Indian citizenship to refugee Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
BJP’s 2019 manifesto too said: “We are committed to enactment of Citizenship Amendment Bill for the protection of individuals of religious minority communities from neighbouring countries escaping persecution.”
Now the Sangh organization said it would move the Supreme Court demanding 20% sample reverification of the draft NRC, published on July 2018 and and “those left out after the tribunal’s verdicts can be covered in the citizenship bill”.
He also added: “We will also press for an all-India NRC. Assam NRC updating will serve as a template. Finally we will have one nation, one NRC. We have also asked our volunteers to offer assistance to genuine Indian citizens.”