By Bhupen Goswami

Guwahati : BJP All India General Secretary Ram Madhav on today reiterated the party’s stance to implement the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.Ram Madhav, who attended the 81st birth anniversary celebrations of former BJP MLA late Bimolangshu Roy in Silchar, said that Assam’s Barak Valley is also known as the land of refugees as most persecuted Hindu Bengalis took refuge there.Saying that the BJP knows how to pay tribute to its leaders and their contributions, he added that “no genuine Bengali will be deprived even if they fail to enlist their name in NRC”, Madhav said. The BJP General Secretary also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will protect the ‘victims of partition’ by bringing CAB into effect. Madhav further blamed past governments for anomalies in National Register of Citizens (NRC). He said that in 1951, NRC was done in the entire country except Assam due to inefficiencies and disagreement of past governments.

“The Congress government successfully passed the Assam Accord in 1985 but ignored NRC and delayed the process by 70 years”, Madhav said. He further added that the anomalies are occuring because of the delay in the NRC process. Support Inside Northeast, an independent media platform that focuses.Madhav said the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru realised the enormity of the problem of undocumented migrants in Assam and enacted a state-specific law in the 1950s to expel foreigners. “Nehru’s great-grandson should read the history and extend support to detect and deport illegal immigrants from Assam,” he said, referring to Rahul Gandhi. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who belongs to the BJP, said genuine Indian citizens will get adequate opportunities to prove their citizenship and include their names in the final list of the NRC. He has suggested that the NRC be implemented in all states. “This is a document which can protect all Indians,” PTI quoted Sonowal as saying. “Those who will be excluded from the NRC in Assam can go to other states. So we will have to take a strong step.”