Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Sunday said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was a "base document for the future" and "a vital initiative for peaceful co-existence".
Interestingly, the order to district police chiefs also carried a mention of Bangladeshi nationals living in the state illegally and then going off the radar.
The apex court on October 18 had ordered the Centre and the Assam government to transfer Hajela to his native state Madhya Pradesh within seven days.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has already said that that NRC will be implemented in the entire country and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also indicated a phased rollout of NRC in the state.
Speaking at NRC seminar at Netaji Indoor stadium in Kolkata, Shah said Trinamool Congress has blocked Citizenship (Amendment) Bill but Centre will ensure it will is passed before implementing NRC in states.
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“People who have migrated from other states are considered as foreigners by you (Delhi CM). You want to chase them out from Delhi, you're one among them. If this is his intention then I think he has lost his mental stability. How does an IRS officer not know what NRC is?”
In the past, Tiwari has on several occasions demanded that NRC should be implemented in the national capital like Assam.
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Bhagwat is understood to have made the comment during a closed-door coordination meeting here of the RSS and its affiliate organisations, including the BJP.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday (September 20) that National Register of Citizens exercise will not take place in West Bengal.
After Assam, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented in the state. "We will implement NRC in Haryana," Khattar told reporters in Panchkula after meeting Justice H S Bhalla (retd) and former Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba at their residences here.
The names of all NRC applicants have been published online on Saturday, the office of the NRC State Coordinator said here.
The abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, publication of NRC in Assam and declaration of India's four most-wanted individuals as terrorists were cited as the Ministry of Home Affair's key achievements in the first 100 days of the Modi government's second term.
The state has already approved a resolution for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state, he told reporters here on the sidelines of the NEDA conclave here."We and many of the states in the north east need NRC.
The Home Minister reiterated that the BJP is going to bring back the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) but assured that the government is duty bound to ensure that implementation of the CAB should not impact the existing privileges enjoyed by the northeastern states.
The West Bengal Assembly on Friday passed a resolution opposing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and ruling out any such exercise in Bengal.
The implementation of the NRC as nothing but a political vendetta of the BJP-led central government. she told the Assembly.
Shah was in the south Maharashtra city to attend the conclusion of the second leg of the 'Mahajanadesh Yatra' launched on August 1 by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
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