Union minister of state for youth affairs and sports and Jaipur rural MP Rajyavardhan Rathore blasts Opposition on Assam NRC draft
Union minister of state for youth affairs and sports, Rajyavardhan Rathore, is the latest to throw his hat inside the National Register of Citizens (NRC) ring. Rathore who also holds the portfolio of minister of state for information and broadcasting took to twitter to clarify that the register in its current form is not conclusive and is in the early stages. He said, “It is a misconception that the 40 lakh people not included in the NRC have been declared illegal aliens. This is a list based on preliminary reports, and will be further revised according to established procedure,” he stated tagging BJP national president Amit Shah in the first of a series of tweets.
Debate ensued after the Assam’s draft NRC excluded more than 40 lakh people from the list released on Monday. The non-inclusion of several people, some of whom who have served in the armed forces and on government jobs, sparked widespread fear of mass detentions across the border state. Rathore’s tweets came in as a response to the Opposition take on the list as another attempt to polarise the citizens of India.
In a strong rebuttal, he clarified that 40 lakh is NOT the final figure. A full investigation will be carried out according to the procedure laid down by the SC order, and any final decision will be taken ONLY after that. He added that the “Assam Accord was signed under PM Sh Rajiv Gandhi. NRC is the very soul of the Accord. Congress did not have the political will to implement it. And today, just for vote bank politics, Congress is opposing the implementation of #NRCforSecureIndia.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh and the Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal have already ruled out any coercive action till the document was finalised. The NRC is mandated to include only those who can prove they were in Assam before March 24, 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence into the state. A total of 3.29 crore people had applied and submitted documents to be included on the Supreme-Court mandated list that was released by the Registrar General of India, Shailesh, in Guwahati. A total of 2.89 crore have been found eligible.
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