MAMATA BADLY FURIOUS ON EXCLUSION OF 40 LAKH PEOPLE IN ASSAM FROM NRC, UPROAR IN PARLIAMENT

The vexed issue of citizenship and preparation of the National Register of Citizenship to segregate the foreigners in Assam, especially the Bangladeshi citizens mainly muslims has assumed wider political implications with the West Bengal chief minister and TMC leader Mamta Bannerjee angrily coming out in the open against the BJP led NDA government at the centre and the state accusing it of pre strategically sidelining or isolating over forty lakh citizens thus depriving them of their right to live against the established UN resolution norms and the ethics of humanity.

The West Bengal chief minister Mamta Bannerjee while casting serious aspersions on the BJP led NDA government has emphatically said that this isolation of forty lakh citizens depriving them of their right to live in Assam by sidelining them through their exclusion from the NRC would allegedly lead to a civil war and blood shed in the country compelling her to meet the union home minister Rajnath Singh and register her party’s protest.

She even went to the extent of appealing to the people of the country to dethrone the present government out of power in 2019 on this issue.

It may be recalled that this exercise was intiated on the directives of the Supreme Court of India and till now while the process of inclusion of citizens in the NRC has been completed, about forty lakh people living in Assam has been left out due to various technical reasons who will be given an opportunity to lay their claims in the near future as claimed by the authorities concerned.

The issue of sidelining the Bangladeshi migrants in Assam has also been raised in both the houses of Parliament by the Congress led entire non BJP opposition who’d openly criticized the ruling party of intentionely and pre strategically creating the impasse and division in the society by playing with the sentiments of the minorities in the name of the massive infiltration of muslim Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam and various other parts of the country.

Mamta Bannerjee is too furious and annoyed on the exclusion of 40 lakh people of Assam and has appealed to the countrymen to change the present regime in 2019 accusing it for being party to mob lynching and intentionally depriving a sizeable population of their citizenship in Assam whereas the union home minister Rajnath Singh has clarified in one of his tweets’ that the process of NRC is a mandatory act on the basis of the Supreme Court’s directives and as per the accord of signed in a tripartite meeting between the union government , the then state government of Assam and the All Assam Students’ union on February, 5th 2005.

The meeting unanimously decided to update the National Citizen Register of Assam of 1951. This was catagorically explained to the Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee when she met the former on 31st July in New Delhi.

Meanwhile, the parliament has today witnessed the uproarious scenes on the issue of exclusion of 4 million people in Assam in the latest exercise of preparation of the NRC putting the government on backfoot, politically. The BJP supremo spoke on the issue in Rajya Sabha and it is believed that the union home minister may also responed to the membes query n protest in the evening presenting the government’s stand.

It is believed that while majority of those excluded from the NRC are muslims, especially the Bangladeshi migrants but good number of Hindus have also been left out. As oer the report in HT around twenty percent of 51 thousand applications in PANDU, ASSAM have not found place in the new NRC list.

As per the news appearing in various news papers, the government of Bangladesh has termed the issue of exclusion of 40 million people from the NRC as the internal ethnic issue of India and has emphatically said that India has never discussed the issue of Bangladeshi immigrants for the single time during the last forty eight years since it achieved independence.

In an interview to HT the Bangladeshi information minister catagorically said that no Bangladeshi citizen has migrated in India giving unambiguos signals that it is not prepared at all to accept any externed Bangladeshi citizen on its land.

Moreover, with its economy  in doldrums Bangladesh is already under an over weight of lakhs of Rohingya refugees who’d fled Myanmar and entered the distressed country. India too have 50 thousand Rohingyas’ who’d cladestinely entered the country facing the possible threat of externment.

It may be recalled that hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi refugees are living in India, with majority of them being Muslims and the BJP had been, since beginning assuring the electorates of the country in ints election menifesto of sending them back to Bangladesh as they are a great liabilty on the country’s economy eating the major share of our countrymen.

Meanwhile, the security bandobast has been enhanced in Assam fearing a backlash and violence. In the latest development, Mamta Bannerjee has denied permission to the BJP chief Amit Shah who was to address the public meeting in West Bengal. Bengal has good number of Bangladeshi immigrants and Mamta Bannerjee is apprehensive that the BJP government at the centre may start the same process in West Bengal as well on the lines of Assam.

It seems clear that the issue of NRC may once again give a new impetus for the entire non BJP opposition to unite credibly as those isolated from NRC in Assam form the non BJP vote bank. What’s your take friends?