Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah said today that the government at the Centre has already started preparing for implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) throughout the country by constructing detention centres, it was reported by News 18.
In an interview with the channel, Shah said that the BJP-led government will complete the process of NRC before the Lok Sabha elections of 2024. He was reported saying that a legal process involving the Foreigners’ Tribunal has just started, which he claimed to be the sign of so called ‘preparations’ for NRC by the government.
Shah said that the FTs will take care of the people who will be listed as illegal residents of the country. Foreigners’ Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies which have the responsibility of determining the legitimacy of a person’s citizenship in India.
Shah has said that those who can’t be deported will be sent to the detention centres by the FTs. The plot for a new detention centre was recently bought by the Maharashtra government near Navi Mumbai, although officials have denied it to be a detention centre in connection with NRC and claimed it to be a detention centre for the passport offenders. Another detention centre has recently been completed near Bengaluru in Karnataka with the state government declaring earlier this month that the process of NRC in the state had begun. Both the states are ruled by BJP.
Asked that what will be the fate of those declared as illegal residents of the country in the process, Shah said that subsequent steps will be taken according to the rules mentioned in a United Nations convention.
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