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Anxiety in Bengal as India seeks to expand National Register of Citizens to rest of the nation
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Critics maintain that India's National Register of Citizens could lead to social and religious unrest.
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NEW DELHI - After a drive to root out illegal immigrants in the north-eastern state of Assam put 1.9 million people on the way to being rendered stateless, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) promise of a similar nationwide drive to verify citizenship is causing unease and even panic in parts of India.
Federal Home Minister Amit Shah said two weeks ago that the government is looking to expand the National Register of Citizens (NRC) from Assam to the rest of the country to root out illegal immigrants.
