“It also does not make him or her a ‘foreigner’, within the legal meaning of the term.” Nigeria
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi attends a news conference on the annual Global Trends report on forced displacement at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2019. Picture taken June 17, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Critics say it is being used by the BJP to push a Hindu nationalist agenda and marginalise the state’s large minority of Muslims — many who fled there when East Pakistan broke violently from Islamabad in 1971 to become Bangladesh. “It also does not make him or her a ‘foreigner’, within the legal meaning of the term,” Kumar said in a statement released late Sunday.
But under the NRC, only those who can demonstrate they or their forebears were in India before 1971 can be included in the list.
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