New Delhi, October 6 (PTI): Terming the National Register of Citizens exercise in Assam as India’s internal affair, a top Bangladeshi official Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally assured premier Sheikh Hasina that people excluded from the NRC list would not be deported to the country. The Supreme-court monitored update of the NRC is an exercise to identify genuine Indian nationals residing in Assam. A political controversy was triggered after the final draft list published on July 30 excluded more than 40 lakh people from the list. “Indian Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi personally assured our premier that those who were excluded from the list under the NRC exercise will not be sent to Bangladesh,” HT Imam, Political Adviser to Hasina, told PTI when asked to comment on the issue in the wake of media reports. Though Imam did not elaborate on the two premier’s communication, he emphasised, “We have been repeatedly assured by India that no such thing (deportation) will happen to create any sort of political instability in Bangladesh, particularly when we (Bangladesh) are approaching our national elections by the end of the year.”
