Only one person applied for Indian citizenship under CAA: Assam CM Himanta Sarma
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that till now in Assam only one person has applied for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Union Home minister Amit Shah will hold a roadshow in Tinsukia on Tuesday.
Sarma while talking to a media person on Monday said, “Till now only one person has applied and that too from Barak valley.”
He said, “This proves that the whole agitation of CAA was not based on fact and was only meant to inflate emotions on bogus numbers. As more time goes by people will get more proof.”
Sarma, “Those who did agitation will have to answer the people about the lies and bogus claims they made. They said people in truckloads are waiting to enter Assam. It will be scientifically proven that their claims were without any substance.”
Recently Sarma had said about three-six lakh people will apply for Indian citizenship under the CAA in the state and these applicants will comprise only those who were excluded from the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Sarma in an interview to a local television channel said around 7 lakh Muslims and 5 lakh Hindu-Bengalis were left out of the NRC list. “Many Hindu-Bengalis had come at different points of time and stayed at refugee camps however when they applied for inclusion in NRC, they submitted a stamped paper as proof of having stayed at such camps. But, Prateek Hajela (former NRC state coordinator) did not accept the paper. As a result, names of many Hindu-Bengalis were not included in the NRC.”
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