NRC to apply nationwide, no person of any religion should worry

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has told Parliament that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be implemented nationwide.

He informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that no person, no matter what religion he or she followed, needed to be afraid.

In Assam, the updated final NRC, which validates bonafide Indian citizens, has left out over 19 lakh applicants.

The NRC aims to identify illegal immigrants -- primarily from Bangladesh -- who entered Assam and settled there after March 25, 1971, and deport them to their native country.