The bill has triggered series of protest in Assam, All Assam Students Union and several other organisations have announced fresh agitation against the bill on November 4.
BJP legislator and party spokesperson Numal Momin said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 will help in arresting influx of migrants from the neighbouring country.
GUWAHATI: Supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, BJP on Wednesday said that once the bill is implemented not a single non-national even if a Hindu who came to India after December 31, 2014 will be allowed stay in India.
He said, “Unnecessary controversy is created, the proposed legislation once it becomes law will help in curbing illegal influx. Once the bill is passed, not a single person who entered India after December 31, 2014 will be allowed to stay in the country, either a Hindu or a Muslim,” Momin said.
He said that the bill will end the congress politics of vote bank.
Congress is opposing the bill for this is against Assam accord. In 1985 Assam accord was signed following which it was decided that for Assam the date of detection and deportation of foreigner will be March 25, 1971 irrespective of religious affiliation.
Recently BJP Assam unit president Ranjeet Kumar Dass said, “If a single non-national is found in the state after the bill becomes a legislation, we will go for scrapping the law as it was done in the case of Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal ) IMDT Act in 2005."
BJP’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has threatened to quit the alliance if the bill is passed by the parliament. The bill aimed at making minority communities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan eligible for applying for Indiancitizenship is under the consideration of Joint parliamentary committee of both the Houses.