Would it be fair to say Congress Party’s failures in Assam have helped BJP communalize the NRC. The BJP can communalise the NRC because the Congress did not implement the Assam Accord (of 1985). The Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950 was passed by Parliament to help Bengali Hindus because they were moving in. If the BJP manages to bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Assam, this will happen to the Bengali Hindus also. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh’s position even then was that the Bengali Hindus are refugees and Bengali Muslims are infiltrators.

Source: Huffington Post October 09, 2019 04:52 UTC