A BJP MP from Jharkhand on Thursday requested the government to bring the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Jharkhand, West Bengal and a particular area of Bihar.
Slamming the Centre over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and its proposal for a pan-India NRC, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that both were against the basic principles of the Constitution. She said she would support the Bill, expected to be tabled in Lok Sabha next week, if citizenship is given to each and every refugee, irrespective of their religion.
No Plan To Update NRC In Bengal But We Will Implement CAA: BJP Leader Kailash Vijayvargiya
‘We are only looking forward to implementing the CAA after the (Bengal Assembly) elections.It is an important issue for us, as we wish to grant citizenship to the persecuted refugees,’ Kailash Vijayvargiya said
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BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said that the saffron party does not have any plan to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in West Bengal. This comes in counter to the Opposition s claims that if voted to power in Bengal, BJP will update the NRC, thereby taking away the citizenship rights of people .