The Home Minister Amit Shah clarified on Tuesday comes after days of violence agitation across India against the CAA and the NRC
New Delhi: A few days back Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there are no talks of bringing NRC across the nation, Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said there is no discussion on nationwide NRC now
There is no connection between detention centers and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) or the Citizenship Amendment Act, Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview, rubbishing reports that purpose-built jails to lock up those who don’t make it to the citizens’ list are coming up in some parts of India. Shah also denied reports that people excluded from Assam’s citizens’ list are living in detention centers.
“We have also made various tribunals for this and nobody has been kept in the detention center. 19 lakh people, who have been excluded from the list there, are staying at their home only,” Mr Shah said.
The Home Minister Amit Shah clarified on Tuesday comes after days of violence agitation across India against the CAA and the NRC. The National Register of Citizens(NRC) meant to target illegal migrants, was carried out in Assam earlier this year and left out 19 lakh people. The opposition alleges that along with the new citizenship law, NRC can be used to target Muslims.
“There is no connection between detention centres and NRC or CAA. A centre in Assam has been there for years and is for illegal migrants. False information is being spread on this,” he said.
“Detention centres are a continuous process. If a foreigner is found without documents, he can’t be kept in jails, he is kept at detention centers not permanently until they are deported,” Shah explained.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a rally in Delhi on Sunday, had also denied that there were any detention centres in India. PM Modi had implied that the nationwide rollout of citizens’ list and a matter referred to repeatedly by his home minister Amit Shah may not be happening.
Shah echoed PM Modi’s views by saying there has not been any discussion on implementing the pan-India citizens’ list.
“There is no need to debate on nationwide NRC as there is no discussion on it right now, PM Modi was right, there is no discussion on it yet either in the Cabinet or Parliament,” he added.
There have been violent protests in several parts of the country against the CAA, the first-ever law to make religion a criterion for citizenship. The Central government says it will help non-Muslims from Muslim-dominated Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan become Indian citizens if they fled religious persecution in their nation and entered India before 2015. Activists, students, opposition parties and others agitators say the law discriminates against Muslims and is against the secular principles of the constitution.
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