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Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship

No one will be taken to detention centres, says Satyendra Joint Secretary, North-East

Satyendra, Joint Secretary, North-East said: "It is a historic day. I welcome everybody here. From central government, I want to reiterate a few things. What we are releasing today is a draft. Union home minister has made it clear that based on this draft, no one will be taken to detention centres and no one will be referred to Foreigners' Tribunal. We are committed to maintaining law and order. We are confident law and order will be maintained at any cost. If anybody does any mischief, he will be sternly dealt with sternly."
 
Once the list is finalised efforts should be made to make sure these 4million do not go to other states and try to get documents there.

These are illegal immigrants and should be dealt with accordingly.
 
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Your thoughts?
 
Once the list is finalised efforts should be made to make sure these 4million do not go to other states and try to get documents there.

These are illegal immigrants and should be dealt with accordingly.

First step is to make sure they won’t vote in next election.And then deal with people from final list as humanly as possible.
 
First step is to make sure they won’t vote in next election.And then deal with people from final list as humanly as possible.

Final list will be out in Dec 2018. So illegal immigrants wont get to vote in the 2019 elections. Lets see how we can send them back to their country with least amount of trouble to either parties.
 
Final list will be out in Dec 2018. So illegal immigrants wont get to vote in the 2019 elections. Lets see how we can send them back to their country with least amount of trouble to either parties.

Already Aunty started shouting and I guess some other political parties will join the chorus.

Congress in bind as Tarun Gogoi saying its he who started this process :))
 
Already Aunty started shouting and I guess some other political parties will join the chorus.

Congress in bind as Tarun Gogoi saying its he who started this process :))

NRC is being made under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. So no amount of whining will work. Its merely lip service to her vote bank of illegal immigrants. She is afraid that next will be the illegal migrants of bengal who will be evicted. Assam list shows that nearly 12% of the population was illegal. Bengal most likely have similar situation.

I am hearing that some other states are actively cracking down on these illegal immigrants. Hopefully the situation will be made so unfavourable in India for these illegal foreigners that they will stop coming to India for.And those who are here will go back.

But before that we must deport those Rohingyas.

Ethnic Assamese whole heartedly supporting the NRC means congress cant oppose it.
 
NRC is being made under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. So no amount of whining will work. Its merely lip service to her vote bank of illegal immigrants. She is afraid that next will be the illegal migrants of bengal who will be evicted. Assam list shows that nearly 12% of the population was illegal. Bengal most likely have similar situation.

I am hearing that some other states are actively cracking down on these illegal immigrants. Hopefully the situation will be made so unfavourable in India for these illegal foreigners that they will stop coming to India for.And those who are here will go back.

But before that we must deport those Rohingyas.

Ethnic Assamese whole heartedly supporting the NRC means congress cant oppose it.

I don’t think a NRC in WB possible without 1000 deaths.Aunty and her criminal party murdered 50+ people just for panchayat elections.

Thank god in south we don’t have this issue.
 
I don’t think a NRC in WB possible without 1000 deaths.Aunty and her criminal party murdered 50+ people just for panchayat elections.

Thank god in south we don’t have this issue.

Illegal foreigners have reached Hyderabad. They are found in plenty in mumbai and NCR.

If a NRC is done under SC orders and supervision then she has to obey or risk President's rule
 
Ethnic Assamese whole heartedly supporting the NRC means congress cant oppose it.

Yes, you can see so much reluctance and mixed reaction from opposition. Imo, if opposition reacts badly to it, it can be the biggest issue for 2019 elections.
 
Illegal foreigners have reached Hyderabad. They are found in plenty in mumbai and NCR.

If a NRC is done under SC orders and supervision then she has to obey or risk President's rule

Aunty is crazy even for SC.She will try to protect he vote bank one way or other way.It will pretty dangerous.
 
Aunty is crazy even for SC.She will try to protect he vote bank one way or other way.It will pretty dangerous.

If there's president's rule what will she do? She will hsve no power. In bengal party supporters change with the party in power. Those who were leftist till 2011 are now TMC in 2018 and will become some other party tommorow.

Once the names are struck off thats that.
 
If there's president's rule what will she do? She will hsve no power. In bengal party supporters change with the party in power. Those who were leftist till 2011 are now TMC in 2018 and will become some other party tommorow.

Once the names are struck off thats that.

But to go to president rule itself will take lot of bloodshed. That state is becoming a basket case.And some idiots even talking about her as next PM.
 
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As a government initiative, I was surprised to see so much professionalism in NRC process. Some are left out but the people who are given authority to verify have been very Co operating enough.

Yup, its a troublesome process but as far as considering the whole population, it was as smooth as one could wish for.

Those who are left out, will be given opportunity to verify their case and this has been the case all along. Hence people, aren't THAT worried.
 
Imagine if your parents brought you in 1971? You will be almost 50 years old with kids etc...

What happens to these 4 million that are now deemed illegal? Will Bangladesh accept them? What if Bangladesh says no? Then what?
 
Imagine if your parents brought you in 1971? You will be almost 50 years old with kids etc...

What happens to these 4 million that are now deemed illegal? Will Bangladesh accept them? What if Bangladesh says no? Then what?

All those after December 2018 when Final list comes out.I guess this will be multi year project.One thing is sure they will not get voting rights from now onwards.
 
All those after December 2018 when Final list comes out.I guess this will be multi year project.One thing is sure they will not get voting rights from now onwards.

At December 2018, Bangladesh is unequivocal in saying that they will not take any more people. Then what happens?

Voting rights taken, okay one.

What about jobs, property, businesses...
 
Imagine if your parents brought you in 1971? You will be almost 50 years old with kids etc...

What happens to these 4 million that are now deemed illegal? Will Bangladesh accept them? What if Bangladesh says no? Then what?

The illegally living people, who are adults, already knows what was going on. There have been multiple steps to eradicate them through 80s, 90s and even in the last decade. This issue isn't something that came out of nowhere. Every kids in the assam knows about it. Inspite of that, if you chosed to live illegally, you'll get deported. It's those people who made a choice and now it's time to pay the price.
 
At December 2018, Bangladesh is unequivocal in saying that they will not take any more people. Then what happens?

Voting rights taken, okay one.

What about jobs, property, businesses...

Govt response

Assam's Finance Minister and firebrand BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma has categorically said that the government would try to strike a balance between the aspirations of the indigenous people of Assam and the humanitarian consideration of those who are left out while formulating the final solution to the issue of illegal immigration from Bangladesh, that has been the main political discourse in the state since independence.

"Once we get the final NRC and a number would come in front of us, we will definitely talk to the government of Bangladesh and if they don't take their people back, we have to decide about their future in accordance with India's tradition, culture and history. However, you cannot force somebody on the people of Assam and you have to ensure a balance between the two -- aspirations of Indigenous people of Assam and the humanitarian consideration," Mr Sarma said in an exclusive interview with NDTV.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/com...ta-biswa-sarma-on-assam-citizens-list-1892060
 
Unfortunate use of the words "final solution".

It's bit of a cop out. Bangladesh has already said no. If they are to let them stay, then what was the purpose of this expensive exercise, just issue blanket amnesty and be done with it. Every now and then the UK does this and whole raft of illegals get regularised.


UK doesn't have too many people plus its developed country.Even if Bangla desh said they wont take them back still we can have further discussions as till now there was no official decision from India to create registry.
 
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Unfortunate use of the words "final solution".

It's bit of a cop out. Bangladesh has already said no. If they are to let them stay, then what was the purpose of this expensive exercise, just issue blanket amnesty and be done with it. Every now and then the UK does this and whole raft of illegals get regularised.

India till now, haven't put pressure in Bangladesh. Once final lists are out, it may put pressure and stance of Bangladesh could change. That'll be a diplomatic battle.
 
India till now, haven't put pressure in Bangladesh. Once final lists are out, it may put pressure and stance of Bangladesh could change. That'll be a diplomatic battle.

Good luck. Atleast Afghanistan is happy to take their people back, Bangladesh isn't. If there are 4 million just in Assam, how many more millions in other states especially West Bengal!!

Then there is the cases of people who are under the age of 47, they came in or were born in India due to no fault of their own. How are they expected to go to Bangladesh and make a new life.
 
Good luck. Atleast Afghanistan is happy to take their people back, Bangladesh isn't. If there are 4 million just in Assam, how many more millions in other states especially West Bengal!!

Then there is the cases of people who are under the age of 47, they came in or were born in India due to no fault of their own. How are they expected to go to Bangladesh and make a new life.

We can always strike a deal. Bangla and India completed exchange of contentious land in border.Trade is going good,so some sort of exchange deal can always possible.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/art...-territory-citizens-landmark-enclave-exchange
 
Good luck. Atleast Afghanistan is happy to take their people back, Bangladesh isn't. If there are 4 million just in Assam, how many more millions in other states especially West Bengal!!

Then there is the cases of people who are under the age of 47, they came in or were born in India due to no fault of their own. How are they expected to go to Bangladesh and make a new life.

If their parents have came in India, and the kid is born,he can show lineage towards his parent. It is a step by step verification process where submitted documents are verified and cross checked.

If the man is 47 years, born in 1971 and afterwards, he can legally show documents that his parents were refugees of 1971.

There are plenty of cases in court now where court has asked to verify the documents by respective branches and departments dates of which goes back to 1971 and even before.
 
These Bangladeshis are not just limited to Assam and West Bengal.

Here in Bangalore a maid turned up on my street less than a year ago and started working in a home, and now I see that she has managed to get herself an Aadhar card. Total farce.

And my Bengali friends say that they can easily spot Bangladeshi security guards at malls, judging by the way they speak Bengali, etc.
 
Muslim survivors of Indian massacre shaken by citizenship test

NELLIE, India (Reuters) - Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he’s a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation.

Suban is one of hundreds of thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslims categorized as “doubtful voters”, who will not find their names in a National Register of Citizens (NRC) the northeastern border state of Assam will release on Monday.

“If the government has decided to brand us foreigners what can we do?” said the 60-year-old. “NRC is trying to finish us off. Our people have died here, but we will not leave this place.”

Suban was seated with his wife at their house a few hundred meters from a vast paddy field where, in 1983, scores of people were chased down and killed by machete-armed mobs intent on hounding out Muslim immigrants. He survived by running as hard as he could and hiding behind a bush for days.

Work on the citizens’ register has accelerated under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

With an eye on the 2019 national election, the BJP’s Hindu-first campaign has become more strident, critics say, playing to its core base with divisive programs such as the citizenship test in Assam, already a tinderbox of ethnic and religious tensions.

Elsewhere in the country’s northern heartland, lynchings of Muslim cattle traders have risen under Modi in the country where many Hindus consider cows sacred, further deepening social divides.

The BJP has denied the lynchings have any connection with it being in power. Modi has at least twice publicly spoken out against cow vigilantes.


MASS GRAVE

Several other survivors of the “Nellie Massacre”, which killed around 2,000 people from more than a dozen villages, gave accounts of burying bodies in a mass grave now partly under water.

They said they hoped the release of the NCR list on Monday would not spark further violence. Security has been tightened across Assam.

The citizenship test is the culmination of years of often violent agitations by Assamese demanding the removal of outsiders they accuse of taking jobs and cornering resources in the state of 33 million, known for its tea estates and oil fields.

“The NRC is extremely important to make the Assamese people feel protected,” said Santanu Bharali, the legal adviser to the BJP chief minister of Assam.

“It’s a moral victory. The ethnic Assamese always maintained the presence of foreigners and this will prove that.”

But the opposition Congress party and rights activists say the government is misusing the register to target even legal Indian Muslim citizens who have traditionally voted for non-BJP parties. The BJP and NRC authorities have repeatedly denied the allegations.


“COMMUNAL POLITICS”

To be recognized as Indian citizens, all residents of Assam had to produce documents proving that they or their families lived in the country before March 24, 1971.

Suban said both he and his father were born in Assam, and showed Reuters a soiled yellow document that showed his father’s name in the list of voters in Assam for 1965, before the cut-off date. The local border police declined to discuss individual cases, but said not all documents furnished by suspected illegal immigrants were valid.

Hundreds of thousands of people fled to India from Bangladesh during its New Delhi-backed war of independence from Pakistan in the early 1970s. Most of them settled in Assam, which has a near-270 km (165-mile) border with Bangladesh.

The migrants included many Hindus, but Modi has issued orders stating that no Hindu or members of other minorities from Pakistan or Bangladesh would be considered an illegal immigrant even if they entered the country without valid documents before 2014.

“BJP’s only aim is to do communal politics, including through the NRC,” Congress lawmaker Ripun Bora said.

The BJP said the NRC was monitored by the country’s top court and there was no question of discriminating on the basis of religion.

Following an outcry from rights groups over possible harassment of Muslims in Assam, Interior Minister Rajnath Singh said that the NRC exercise was being carried out in an impartial and transparent manner.

Singh also reiterated that people finding their names missing from the list could raise objections and appeals, and said that they would not be thrown into detention centers.

Rivals say that as Modi’s government faces disillusionment for failing to deliver on jobs and prosperity, it will step up religious mobilization across the country.


FEAR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

The first draft of the NRC, released on Dec. 31, confirmed the citizenship of 19 million people, leading to jubilation for some and heartbreak among others.

The NRC office, however, told the Supreme Court this month that 150,000 people from the first list, a third of them married women, would be dropped from the next one, mainly because they provided false information or gave inadmissible documents.

Political activists in Assam say most of those are Bengali-speaking Muslims. NRC chief Prateek Hajela, whose office has processed 66 million documents and spent nearly $180 million in the whole NRC process, declined comment on the religion of people who would be removed from the register.

“We are doing an exercise that is unprecedented and if there are course corrections which are required to be done, we will need to do that,” said Hajela, who is guarded round-the-clock by a team of police.

Hajela said that most of Assam’s 126,000 so-called doubtful voters, and an estimated 150,000 of their descendants, would be excluded from the NRC in accordance with a court order.

One of them is Nellie farmer Suban’s son Nabi Hussain, 28, who said he has voted in two Indian elections but now fears arrests.

“We are scared,” said Hussain, his wife looking on from their mud-coated bamboo house, their nine-month-old daughter in her arms. “Terrible things happened to our family once, we don’t want a repeat.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...acre-shaken-by-citizenship-test-idUSKBN1KJ01L
 
These Bangladeshis are not just limited to Assam and West Bengal.

Here in Bangalore a maid turned up on my street less than a year ago and started working in a home, and now I see that she has managed to get herself an Aadhar card. Total farce.

And my Bengali friends say that they can easily spot Bangladeshi security guards at malls, judging by the way they speak Bengali, etc.

I guess they first migrated to eastern states and then moved to Bangalore along with other Bengalis. Aadhar card is not proof for citizenship though.
 
Every right wing nut-head's dream:
4 million Muslims to be sent to concentration camps


Let's see what govt plans to do with them
Strip them of employment and property. Restrict free education to kids and free healthcare in PHC. Send them to refugee camps/concentration camps or JAIL.
Or make a deal with Bangladesh to take them back (IMPOSSIBLE)
or Maybe get the trigger happy lynch mob to lynch a few thousand and fear will make them run towards Bangladeshi border in a human wave (most likely scenario)
 
Every right wing nut-head's dream:
4 million Muslims to be sent to concentration camps


Let's see what govt plans to do with them
Strip them of employment and property. Restrict free education to kids and free healthcare in PHC. Send them to refugee camps/concentration camps or JAIL.
Or make a deal with Bangladesh to take them back (IMPOSSIBLE)
or Maybe get the trigger happy lynch mob to lynch a few thousand and fear will make them run towards Bangladeshi border in a human wave (most likely scenario)

Who said its 4 million Mulsims? lot of propaganda is going on right now.This is started by SC that too under Congress rule.
 
These Bangladeshis are not just limited to Assam and West Bengal.

Here in Bangalore a maid turned up on my street less than a year ago and started working in a home, and now I see that she has managed to get herself an Aadhar card. Total farce.

And my Bengali friends say that they can easily spot Bangladeshi security guards at malls, judging by the way they speak Bengali, etc.

You don't have problem with nepalis working in india, but problem with bangladeshis? when they are not doing any harm.

Arent you the guy who says Aadhar is NOT the proof of citizenship?
 
You don't have problem with nepalis working in india, but problem with bangladeshis? when they are not doing any harm.

Arent you the guy who says Aadhar is NOT the proof of citizenship?

India and Nepal doesn't even need Visa to move between countries.Also there is specific unit of Nepalis working in Indian army.
 
Unfortunate use of the words "final solution".

It's bit of a cop out. Bangladesh has already said no. If they are to let them stay, then what was the purpose of this expensive exercise, just issue blanket amnesty and be done with it. Every now and then the UK does this and whole raft of illegals get regularised.

Sorry. That cannot be done.We are not the dumping ground of illegal migrants. Bangladesh has to take responsibility of its people.

If India doesnot take strict punititive actions then this stream of refugees will continue. That will change the local demographics and thatt will lead to clashes between the citizens of India and illegal immigrants. This may ultimately lead to insurgency movements.
 
These Bangladeshis are not just limited to Assam and West Bengal.

Here in Bangalore a maid turned up on my street less than a year ago and started working in a home, and now I see that she has managed to get herself an Aadhar card. Total farce.

And my Bengali friends say that they can easily spot Bangladeshi security guards at malls, judging by the way they speak Bengali, etc.

State govt must strictly strike down on these bangladeshi migrants. Like the Assamese the rest of the people must raise their voices.
 
Good luck. Atleast Afghanistan is happy to take their people back, Bangladesh isn't. If there are 4 million just in Assam, how many more millions in other states especially West Bengal!!

Then there is the cases of people who are under the age of 47, they came in or were born in India due to no fault of their own. How are they expected to go to Bangladesh and make a new life.

West Bengal will give them.citizenship as they are big votebank for two major parties there.
 
West Bengal will give them.citizenship as they are big votebank for two major parties there.

There is only one party is in WB now who takes all votes.Communists are destroyed and BJP doesn't bother about Muslim vote as they wont get any way.
 
Illegal foreigners have reached Hyderabad. They are found in plenty in mumbai and NCR.

If a NRC is done under SC orders and supervision then she has to obey or risk President's rule

Why don't these people go to countries that share their culture and religion?
 
I'm not sure what to say , seeing a similar thing happen in USA guess am more sympathetic to BD migrants but the issue would be about nationalism.
 
I'm not sure what to say , seeing a similar thing happen in USA guess am more sympathetic to BD migrants but the issue would be about nationalism.

More than nationalism indigenous peoples right is ore important.Another problem is our unsustainable population.
 
I'm not sure what to say , seeing a similar thing happen in USA guess am more sympathetic to BD migrants but the issue would be about nationalism.

Reason for sympathy being?

They are not persecuted in BD.
 
Huge numbers of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India as a whole :

"In an announcement which may start a political debate, government said on Wednesday that around two crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants are staying in India. “As per available inputs, there are around 20 million illegal Bangladeshi migrants staying in India,” Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju informed Rajya Sabha replying a written question. Rijiju said, there are reports of Bangladeshi nationals having entered the country without valid travel documents. Since entry of such Bangladeshi nationals into the country is clandestine and surreptitious, it is not possible to have accurate data of such Bangladeshi nationals living in various parts of the country, he said.

Rijiju said deportation of illegal staying foreign national is continuous process. During the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had said that “Bangladeshis” will be deported if he comes to power. “They have been given the red carpet welcome by politicians just for votes. You can write it down. After May 16, these Bangladeshis better be prepared with their bags packed,” Modi had said at an election rally in Serampore in West Bengal, which shares a porous border with Bangladesh. Assam and West Bengal are considered to be the worst hit due to the alleged illegal infiltration from Bangladesh. Assam had witnessed a six year long agitation between 1979-85 against the illegal immigrants.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/i...gladeshis-living-in-india-government-4379162/

Why don't these people go to countries that share their culture and religion?

Pak has around 1.5 ethnic Bengalis, all in Karachi, the majority of them being Pak citizens pre-71, contrarily to perception. The actual illegal Bangladeshis are probably around 100 000-200 000 or so, behind the Burmese-Rohingyas (around 350 000, also all in Karachi), and themselves are behind the largest group, that of Afghans (around 2 millions, but not all in Karachi in their case).
 
You think Mexicans are persecuted in Meixco?If that was the case Americans wouldn't line up to be there every spring break.

But America is developed country and have far more resources for less population compared to India.
 
But America is developed country and have far more resources for less population compared to India.

Which is true, not denying that, as I have said multiple times I'm glad I'm neither in charge of Kashmir or making tough decisions for the country but I can surely be sympathetic to both issues.
 
You don't have problem with nepalis working in india, but problem with bangladeshis? when they are not doing any harm.

Sadly, the criteria is not you and your brethren doing 'good' or 'harm', rather a simple check on whether you are in the country legally or not.

Every single Nepali can set up shop in India and vice versa, the same is not true for India and Bangladesh. If I ever fancy a vacation in Dhaka (don't worry, I don't), I will need to apply for a paper visa the old-school way. Why do Bangladeshis turn up uninvited and get government documents such as the Aadhar in faraway Bangalore?
 
How will that be denied if they have state docs?

I guess people with proper document will not be denied but check is pretty stringent i guess.As we all know getting documents is pretty easy in India if you bribe right people.
 
Sorry. That cannot be done.We are not the dumping ground of illegal migrants. Bangladesh has to take responsibility of its people.

If India doesnot take strict punititive actions then this stream of refugees will continue. That will change the local demographics and thatt will lead to clashes between the citizens of India and illegal immigrants. This may ultimately lead to insurgency movements.

Reading one of the lengthy article above, it seems the state policy of bjp is to target Muslim migrants only. That is pretty shocking and very disappointing.

The insurgency movements in north east are from indigenous people not these migrants.

what happens when Bangladesh refuses to take them in? No one seems to have thought that through. What do you think will happen when Bangladesh flatly refuses.
 
Reading one of the lengthy article above, it seems the state policy of bjp is to target Muslim migrants only. That is pretty shocking and very disappointing.

The insurgency movements in north east are from indigenous people not these migrants.

what happens when Bangladesh refuses to take them in? No one seems to have thought that through. What do you think will happen when Bangladesh flatly refuses.

It's not BJP problem if majority of the immigrants are Muslims.Assamese doesn't want any immigrants including Hindus.Some random articles not going to change the fact that immigrants occupied places if indigenous people who lived in this place from Centuries.
 
How will that be denied if they have state docs?

What state documents? The NRC is being monitored by the Supreme Court. Once tye final list is out these people become illegal immigrants and any document they procure becomes illegal and a criminal offence.
 
what happens when Bangladesh refuses to take them in? No one seems to have thought that through. What do you think will happen when Bangladesh flatly refuses.

They are illegal immigrants who hail from Bangladesh, regardless of the amount of time they have marinated here. If they're asked to pack up and leave, off they go.
 
Reading one of the lengthy article above, it seems the state policy of bjp is to target Muslim migrants only. That is pretty shocking and very disappointing.

The insurgency movements in north east are from indigenous people not these migrants.

what happens when Bangladesh refuses to take them in? No one seems to have thought that through. What do you think will happen when Bangladesh flatly refuses.

Bjp isnt making the list. The supreme court monitored agency is making it.

Illegal immigrant is illegal. He may be from whatever background.

Lets suppose BD refuses to take them in. There will be negotiations at the diplomatic levels. Also many of these people will simply go back the way they came in.

The biggest thing will be this effort will act as a strong deterrent to anyone who in future is planning to illegally move into India.

This refugee business have to be stopped. India has refugees from Lanka,BD,Tibet,Pakistan,Afghanistan Myanmar etc.

The bjp has proposed a policy that according to the partition plan of 1947 any non muslim from Pakistan or BD be allowed to come to India and take citizenship. This is a separate thing from the NRC. But for this to happen citizenship laws will have to be changed.
 
Wasn't there a Bengali on this forum boasting about Bangladesh reduction in fertility rate?, now we knew all along that they sent there excess population into India, Imagine the turmoil if India sent back the 20 million illegal bengalies to Bangladesh.
 
Wasn't there a Bengali on this forum boasting about Bangladesh reduction in fertility rate?, now we knew all along that they sent there excess population into India, Imagine the turmoil if India sent back the 20 million illegal bengalies to Bangladesh.

that'd be slightly more than 10% of BD's whole pop.
 
In an ideal world everyone agrees what should happen - those in the country illegally should return to their country of origin but it's not as simple as that. Much like the Biharis in Bangladesh, the Afghans in Pakistan etc these people have been in India for decades and many won't even have a home back in Bangladesh. Moreover, the Bangladesh government will want solid proof that these people are Bangladeshi before agreeing to take them back. If they've destroyed their documents how can India prove they are from Bangladesh? This is exactly the argument that India uses when it comes to undocumented and illegal Indian immigrants living in the UK and elsewhere. "Prove to us they are Indian and then we can talk" the government will tell foreign countries.


Incentives should be offered to those who agree to return but for those who don't what can you do?If I were in charge I'd offer the rest some kind of long term residency card which doesn't give them the right to vote or receive state benefits but does allow them to work and live in India and receive things like emergency medical treatment if they need it.

However at the end of the day this is a decision for those living in India and Indian taxpayers to make as they are the ones living with the consequences of such illegal immigration.
 
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