Gogoi asked why the issue of deportation of the foreigners was not being taken up with Bangladesh and “this too points out that the BJP and AGP want to keep the issue alive for their political gain”. (Express Photo)
Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has claimed that the initiative to update the NRC was his “baby” and the BJP has failed to “nurse” it properly due to which a defective draft was published with names of over 40 lakh people missing. The three-time chief minister alleged that the BJP was not interested in solving the problem of infiltration, but to use it as a poll agenda in the next Lok Sabha and state elections.
“The BJP has always played politics with the foreigners issue on communal lines and is just not interested in solving the problem,” Gogoi told PTI in an interview.
The infiltration issue always crops up before elections, then subsides to emerge again before the next polls. The BJP does not want to solve it as is evident from their introduction of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 which is primarily aimed at bringing in more foreigners, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi “will not drive out the foreigners, but is interested in bringing in more. The BJP…
