A Bengali community body – Amra Bangali in Tripura on Saturday argued the Supreme Court’s declaration of all Bangladeshi migrants who entered Assam on or after Mar 25, 1971, as illegal migrants.
Addressing a press conference here at Agartala on Saturday, the Amra Bangali state general secretary Gouranga Rudra Pal observed that Article 6 was added to the Citizenship Act in 1985 after the signing of the Assam Agreement. Prior to that, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1955 provided that any person could be eligible for citizenship by birth, inheritance, marriage, or by residing continuously in a state for at least five years in accordance with the Constitution of India.
He accused the government of planning to strip Bengalis of their rights and force them out of India.
The SC’s declaration and the political motives of the government have instilled severe fear among Bengalis across the country, including Assam, Tripura, and the North Eastern region, regarding their citizenship status, Pal argued.
He further stated that about 20 lakh Bengalis were identified as foreigners and sent to detention camps through the implementation of NRC in Assam state in 2019, which perhaps is another cause of fear among the Bengali communities in India.
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