BJP govt brought in NRC, identified 40 lakh illegal immigrants: Amit Shah

Picking up the issues of draft National Register of Citizens(NRC) for Assam and the arrest of activists by Maharashtra Police to slam Congress president Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said that “illegal migrants enter and cause bomb blasts”, and that “40 lakh illegal migrants prima facie were identified” through the NRC. Addressing party workers and booth-level workers in Raipur a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a scheduled rally in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir Champa district, Shah said, “The NRC happened… the country has crores of illegal migrants. You tell me, should you remove illegal migrants or not from this country? In Assam, our (BJP’s) government was made, at the Centre it was our government, we brought the NRC, (and) 40 lakh illegal migrants prima facie were identified.”
Shah’s remarks come two days after the Supreme Court ordered that the process of receiving claims and objections from people whose names were not included in the final draft NRC for Assam will start from September 25. Shah said that booth workers are the BJP’s strength during elections, and ridiculed Rahul Gandhi of “day dreaming” for his remarks that the Congress will win the coming polls in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Ever since Narendra Modi has become Prime Minister, Shah said, history shows the states BJP has been victorious in.

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