NRC in present format not acceptable: Assam BJP chief Ranjit Kumar Dass

Guwahati: Assam BJP chief Ranjit Kumar Dass on Friday said that owing to legal tangle, BJP-led state government failed to complete the NRC (National Register of Citizens) process.

Talking to media persons in Guwahati, Dass said: “We have fulfilled most of the assurances made in the run-up to the 2016 assembly polls. However, in some aspects, we could not fulfil our promise.”

“NRC being one of them. We do not want NRC in the present format to be handed over to the people of Assam. NRC incurred around ₹1,600 crore expense. However, lakhs of Indian citizens have been excluded and several illegal immigrants, using fake documents, got included in NRC. If a single Indian’s name is not there, this is not acceptable.”