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Refugees to stay, but infiltrators to be thrown out, says Amit Shah
Updated On: 02 October, 2019 09:14 AM IST | | Agencies
Union home minister says the NRC will be implemented in West Bengal, but before that the Citizenship (amendment) Bill will be passed
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Amit Shah said West Bengal's ruling TMC was misleading people about the citizenship roll. Pic/PTI
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Tuesday the Centre will extend the National Register of Citizens to West Bengal but before that the Citizenship (amendment) Bill will be passed to accord Indian citizenship to all Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist refugees.
Addressing a seminar on the controversial NRC, which has hitherto been restricted to Assam, Shah said West Bengal's ruling TMC was misleading people about the citizenship roll. "People of Bengal are being misled about the NRC... I assure all Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain refugees they won't have to leave the country, they will get Indian citizenship and enjoy all the rights of an Indian national," he said.
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