A tweet by BJP spokesperson Baijayant Jay Panda praising his younger colleague from Karnataka, Tejasvi Surya, for seeking a citizens' list similar to the one being prepared in BJP-ruled Assam, received a glowing acknowledgement from the 28-year-old leader from Bengaluru South.
The BJP's youngest parliamentarian had on Wednesday asked the centre to run the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Karnataka, where he said illegal immigrants posed a threat to the state. "A terror module that operates from Bangladesh was busted in Bengaluru. I call upon the centre to extend NRC to Karnataka and Bengaluru to weed out Bangladeshis who have come here illegally," said Tejasvi Surya in the Lok Sabha.