WASHINGTON: The head of a US government warning board on Tuesday voiced worry over India's drive to enlist residents in the northeastern territory of Assam, in the midst of fears it could disappoint millions, a large portion of them Muslims.
Tony Perkins - seat of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, which issues proposals to the administration yet does not make approach - said that religious pluralism was "a bedrock of Indian society."
"However, we remain concerned with the potential abuse of the National Register of Citizens in Assam and the resulting introduction of a religious requirement for citizenship, which are contrary to the ideals of religious freedom in India," he said in an announcement.
India has given Assam inhabitants until the part of the arrangement to demonstrate they, their folks or grandparents were in the state before 1971.
Home Minister Amit Shah, the right-hand man of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has required the launch of "termites" from India and, before their Hindu patriot Bharatiya Janata Party's race triumph this year, pledged to take the Assam-style battle across the nation and "send back the infiltrators."
In another move, India's lower place of parliament passed enactment in January to concede citizenship to people who originated from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan in any event six years back - yet not on the off chance that they are Muslim.
Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, a preservationist Christian gathering near President Donald Trump's Republican Party that is known for its opposition to acceptance of homosexuality.
Joining his announcement of concern was Anurima Bhargava, an member from the commission named by Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
She said the commission was "troubled" by any activities that target minorities, saying that the registration "must not become a means to target and render stateless the Muslim community in northeastern India."
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