Letter to BS: Govt should avoid short-sighted NRC policy to avoid disaster

Those eventually left out would be staring at an uncertain future in a country they lived for generations

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah claiming that the NRC was the soul of the Assam Accord signed by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985, which the Congress was afraid to implement, no one is left in doubt about his party’s likely contours of campaign strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections. The party campaigners would whip up an artificial wave of nationalism to polarise the voters by portraying those excluded from the list as anti-nationals. Unlike the BJP president of West Bengal, who promised such an exercise would be undertaken in West Bengal too