No need of NRC in Bihar: KC Tyagi

Secretary-General of Janta Dal (United) KC Tyagi denied the demand for implementing National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Bihar. The comment comes after BJP, JDU leaders demanded to conduct a survey like NRC in the state.

New Delhi:After the BJP leaders demanded National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be implemented in several parts of Bihar, Secretary-General of Janta Dal-United (JDU) KC Tyagi denied for conducting any such survey in the state.

During a conversation with ETV Bharat, Tyagi said, "It is the right of every leader in the country to express their views and ideas on any particular topic. But, this right does not mean to motivate any topic for the sake of political benefit."

The leader further maintained that NRC only meant for the state of Assam, as the state has been witnessing a large number of illegal migrants from the neighbouring country of Bangladesh.

Bihar also shares borders with some of the rival countries, but, the state has not witnessed any problem of such illegal migrants from any of the neighbouring countries.

So, there is no need for such a survey to be implemented in the state.

Appraising the NDA government, Tyagi added that at present, the government is concerned about every citizen of the country, without discriminating on the basis of caste, colour and sex.

What is NRC?

The NRC in Assam is basically a list of Indian citizens living in the state. The citizens’ register sets out to identify foreign nationals in the state that borders Bangladesh.

The process to update the register began following a Supreme Court order in 2013, with the state’s nearly 33 million people having to prove that they were Indian nationals prior to March 24, 1971.

The updated final NRC was released on August 31, with over 1.9 million applicants failing to make it to the list.