The data on the portal will speak now, and it will become clear whether the claims of those opposing the Act......
Digital desk: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday declared that he would be the first to resign if someone who hasn't applied for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) gained citizenship.
His remarks follow widespread demonstrations in Assam on Monday against the BJP government's implementation of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), which cleared the way for the naturalization of undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
"I am a son of Assam and if a single person who has not applied for NRC gets citizenship, I will be the first to resign", Sarma said on the sidelines of a program at Sivasagar.
"The protesters are claiming that lakhs of people will enter the state after the implementation of the CAA. If this happens, I will be the first to protest", he said.
Sarma further added, "There is nothing new about the CAA as it was enacted earlier. Now the time has come for application on the portal. The data on the portal will speak now, and it will become clear whether the claims of those opposing the Act stand factually correct or not."
The central government will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who arrived in India on December 31, 2014, in accordance with the CAA regulations. These consist of Christians, Parsis, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, and Hindus. Since regulations had not been announced until now, the law could not go into effect.
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