Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, assured Bangladesh that the 40 lakh people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam would not be deported from India to Bangladesh.
H.T. Imam, Political Adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “Prime Minister Modi has personally assured our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that those not on the NRC list of Assam would not be sent to Bangladesh in the near future.”
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Speaking to reporters, Imam said that Bangladesh has been repeatedly assured about the same, including by the High Commissioner of India Harsh Vardhan Shringla, reported The Hindu.
“Assurance was given to our PM. Whatever is happening in Assam regarding NRC is internal to India. During 1947 large number of people including high profile leaders had migrated to India. It is not possible (to displace people) now,” he added.
Earlier in August, Bangladesh MP Nazibul Bashar, after meeting MoS for External Affairs M J Akbar and MoS for Home Kiren Rijiju in Delhi, had said that the Narendra Modi government will not deport the people excluded from Assam’s NRC.
Bashar had quoted Rijiju and said, “NRC is a long judicial process. Even if the numbers reduce from 40 lakhs to 10 or 5, Modi government will not depot them as it considers the Bangladeshi immigrants as part of the indian economy.”