An Interaction With The Bjp Leader Vijay Kumar Gupta On Nrc

Present form of final NRC is not acceptable to BJP as names of genuine Indian Citizens dropped deliberately without rhyme or reason: Vijay Kumar Gupta, BJP State Vice-President

- Bijoy Kumar Sharma

BJP State Vice-President, Vijay Kumar Gupta is a veteran and deep rooted BJP leader in the party, who over the years shouldered many a responsibilities in various capacity at different point of time since the inception of the party in Assam. Because of his service and contribution to the party, he was not only elevated to the post of Vice-President of state BJP but also appointed as the Chairman of Assam Financial Corporation (AFC).

Gupta was on two-day visit to Dhubri district early this month to take stock of the situation prevailing in Dhubri district after publication of NRC final list and to interact with the people whose names did not figure in the final list published on August 31. Vijay Kumar Gupta (VKG) exclusively talked to Associate Editor, Bijoy Kumar Sharma (BKS) at Circuit House here to expressed his views and points of resentments on NRC. The excerpt of the formal talk is outlined below.

On exclusion of names of genuine Indian Citizens

VKG: I express my deep sense of resentment over exclusion of names of genuine Indian Citizens to the tune of lakhs, and present form of NRC update which is full of errors as not only the names of Bengali Hindus and Hindi speaking people but also the names of indigenous people and tribal communities has not been included in the final NRC update.