BJP’s Barak coordination Committee to meet Amit Shah on NRC anomalies
Silchar, Sept 07 [Correspondent]: The Barak Valley Coordination Committee of the BJP has decided to approach Union Home Minister Amit Shah with their charter of demands on the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Former Union Minister and
now chairman of the coordination committee, Kabindra
Purakayastha on Saturday informed media persons that a
representative team of the
committee members including Silchar MP Dr Rajdeep
Roy and other frontline leaders shall meet Amit Shah
when the latter arrives at Guwahati on September 8 and
submit a charter of demands
including a relook into the
anomalies in the published
NRC and also a plea to get the
Citizenship Amendment Bill
(CAB) passed in the next Parliament session.
“The NRC which is in front
of us is not what we wanted.
The NRC is a major blow to
those who sought refuge in
the country being victims of
persecution from erstwhile
East Pakistan. It is full of errors mainly due to the autocratic approach of State Coordinator Hajela who had given
no heed to the guidelines of
the Supreme Court. While
many genuine Indians, mainly
Bengali- speaking Hindus have
been kept out of the NRC, we
saw that bulk of the population
in bordering districts of Dhubri and Goalpara were included. We shall approach the Union Home Minister with a demand to relook into the
messed-up matter and also
urge him to look into the possible areas of the CAB and
implementation of the notification of September 7, 2015
which is materialised in the
rest of the States. We are sure
that the Bill shall be tabled
again and passed again,”
Purakayastha maintained.
He added that the representative team would also
press for inclusion of people
from Bengali, Hindi and even
Manipuri-speaking people in
the committee deciding the
procedures of Clause 6.
He informed that the committee has decided in the special meeting held at the BJP
office here that steps would be
taken to provide free legal assistance to the NRC left-outs.
