New Delhi: The Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament on Wednesday that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process will be carried out across the country. There would be no discrimination on the basis of Religion, he said.

   It is just a process to get everyone under the NRC, the Minister replied to a supplementary question during in question hour in Rajya Sabha. He said that in Assam, the people whose names have not found in the draft list have the right to go to the foreigners tribunals. The tribunals will be constituted across the Assam. If any person does not have the money to approach the tribunals, then the Assam Government will bear the cost to hire a lawyer.

   Mamatha rejected NRC in WB: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Benerjee reacted on the Amit Shah’s word on NRC, a total of 19 lakhs people have been left out of the Assam NRC list. Those omitted in the NRC include Hindus, Bengalis, Muslims, Gorkhas and Buddhists, she said. They have been sent to detention centres in West Bengal, she said. She will never allow any detention centre in West Bengal and assuring people that she will never allow such a Citizens Register in the state. Assam was part of the Assam accord signed during the tenure of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and that the exercise can never be implemented across India.