5.42 L will benefit by Citizenship Act: Sarma

December 16, 2019 19:07

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said a maximum of 5.42 lakh people will be benefitted in the state by the amended Citizenship Act in the state.

Sarma, a senior BJP leader, said, that rumours were being spread by a certain section of people who claimed that over a crore of people will be benefitted by the act and more people from Bangladesh will pour into Assam.

He said that members of Congress and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, a peasant organisation of the state, were found to be involved in the violence that rocked the state and Guwahati, its epicentre, after the amendment was passed by Parliament.

"However, we do not know at this moment if they indulged in violence in their personal capacities or at their organisational levels. A detailed probe will ascertain that, he said.

"As per the Assam government estimates a maximum of 5.42 lakh will be benefitted from the Act. It may be less than

that," Sarma told a press conference.

Asked about the source of the figure, he said that it has been arrived at after assessing persons whose names did not figure in the final list of National Register of Citizens.

-- PTI

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