Will bring in NRC in Bengal if voted to power: Amit Shah

ALIPURDUAR: BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said that his party will replicate the National Register of Citizens exercise in West Bengal if it comes to power at the Centre.


"We will bring in NRC in Bengal and throw out all infiltrators. We will ensure that Hindu refugees are not touched," Shah said at BJP's first

Lok Sabha campaign in Bengal

in Adivasi-dominated Alipurduar.

The ruling Trinamool Congress was quick to rebuff BJP Shah's claim. "We will never allow any NRC exercise in Bengal. They (BJP) want to divide the people on religious and communal lines," Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata.