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Himanta Biswa Sarma (Photograph: Wikipedia)
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday stated that he would be the first to resign if one particular person, who has not utilized for Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC), will get citizenship.
His remark comes after protests erupted throughout Assam with opposition events flaying the BJP authorities on the Centre for implementing the contentious Citizenship (Modification) Act, 2019 (CAA) on Monday, paving the best way for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
‘I’m a son of Assam and if a single one who has not utilized for NRC will get citizenship, I would be the first to resign’, the chief minister stated on the sidelines of a programme at Sivasagar.
The protesters are claiming that lakhs of individuals will enter the state after the implementation of the CAA.
‘If this occurs, I would be the first to protest,” he stated.
There may be nothing new in regards to the CAA because it was enacted earlier, the chief minister stated, including that ‘now the time has come for software on the portal’.
‘The information on the portal will converse now, and it’ll grow to be clear whether or not the claims of these opposing the Act stand factually right or not,” Sarma stated.
With the CAA guidelines being issued, the central authorities will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who got here to India until December 31, 2014. These embrace Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians. The regulation couldn’t come into impact as guidelines had not been notified until now.
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First Printed: Mar 12 2024 | 11:36 AM IST
