“All those whose names do not figure in the NRC will have to be deported. “The NRC is being done to identify illegal Bangladeshis residing in Assam,' Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam’s finance minister who is also in charge of the citizenship register, told Reuters. Muslims leaders have called the NRC a tool to make them stateless, likening themselves to Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority. The exercise could lead to communal tensions in Assam, which has the second highest percentage of Muslims of any Indian state.
