New Delhi: National Register of Citizens (NRC) debate lead to disruption in Rajya Sabha as the upper house was adjourned for the third straight day on Wednesday amid protests by Congress and Trinamool Congress members over the NRC draft Assam list that excluded 40 lakh residents of the northeastern state.
Congress MP Anand Sharma demanded that certain comments made by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah during a discussion on the NRC a day earlier be expunged.
Shah had said the Assam Accord signed by then PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 with organisations campaigning for identification and deportation of illegal migrants in the state was the ‘soul of NRC’ and unlike the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had the ‘courage’ to implement it.
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Sharma said Shah had dubbed all PMs who had succeeded Gandhi as cowards, adding that the BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee, too, was one of his successors. Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said he would examine the records, calling upon Shah to complete his statement that was interrupted on Tuesday.