SDPI holds ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ demanding repeal of NRC in Assam

Bengaluru, Oct 15: The Social Democratic Party of India today held a ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ rally in Benglauru demanding repeal of the National Register of Citizenship (NRC), which is being utilized as a weapon by the Centre to target Muslims in Assam. 

The protesters said that about 40 lakh names were left out in the NRC in Assam which worsened the situation of poor and backward Bengali speaking people in the state. Surprisingly, thousands of peoples’ names were missed out in the NRC even when their close relatives and family members’ names were registered in the same.

The protesters forwarded a memorandum to the president of India urging him to take necessary steps to either repeal NRC in Assam or if the government adamantly insists on NRC, then it has to include all the people living in Assam as the citizen of this country up to this day.

In a released issued here, SDPI observed that the people who are missed out from NRC may fall into the clasp of massive mistrust, frictions and oppression from the society and state as well. This will create a big state-made civilian crisis which will impact on to the neighboring states also.

The central government and state government of Assam should not fall into the pressure created by any divisive forces which are unnecessarily create false hue and cry and ruckus over Bengali speaking people in the state, it stated.