GUWAHATI: As Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has openly shared its apprehensions over the fairness of the final list, the opposition Congress feels that the state government is using NRC for its own political interests.
State BJP president Ranjit Dass said, “We are not happy with the way the NRC updation has been conducted till now.”
The question arises as to what the party knows about the process and how it knows whatever it knows when the process has been entirely and exclusively driven by the NRC secretariat.
Dass had also added that they want an error-free NRC publication which is fair. The state BJP chief mentioned that they fear that names of genuine Indian citizens could be left out due to some errors and foreigners’ names could be included in the list. But even when the chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has clarified that all will get the chance to raise questions if their names do not figure in the final NRC list, why are Dass and other BJP leaders worried?
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What does Dass mean by genuine Indian citizens?
Leader of opposition Debabrata Saikia said, “BJP wants to scrap Assam Accord by reviving Citizenship (Amendment) Bill issue but it will never happen as Assamese people and all the organisations will not allow it to happen.”
Talking to G Plus, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) President, Ripun Bora said, “Looking at the way things are going, it seems that the BJP government does not want the NRC list to be published and wants to delay the process.”
He added, “This is why a few days ago, the state government along with the Centre, had moved the Supreme Court asking for a 20% sample re-verification of the draft NRC in districts bordering Bangladesh and 10 per cent in other districts.”
The BJP is questioning the entire process costing Rs 1,200 crores.
