The state Assembly on Tuesday took an all-party resolution accusing the BJP government of divisive politics over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam that has excluded the names of more than 40 lakh people in the final draft.

Trinamul Congress, Congress and CPI-M unanimously slammed the Centre for making so many people ‘refugees in their own homeland’.

A delegation comprising six MPs from TMC, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh, Mamata Thakur, Mahua Moitra, MLA and state municipal affairs and urban development minister Firhad Hakim will visit Assam on 2 and 3 August.

A motion for discussion on the issue was placed by state parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee in the Assembly and Speaker Biman Banerjee allowed it taking into account the seriousness and sensitivity.

Urging all the Opposition parties to raise their voice together, state panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his indifference in the whole episode.

“The people of that state have been pushed towards an uncertain future deliberately and the Prime Minister has assumed the position of Nirab (silent) Modi. It is unprecedented and I am at a loss of words to condemn the matter.”

Participating in the discussion, minister of state (health) Chandrima Bhattacharya questioned the reason behind the exclusion and said that the Supreme Court has not provided any modus on the basis of which the NRC has excluded the names of so many Assam citizens, a majority of whom are Bengalis.

“The NRC in December 2017 had the names of thse citizens and now in the latest NRC their names have been omitted. It is clearly a tactics to segregate and isolate those people who do not belong to BJP’s votebank,” she said.

Many of the people who have been excluded had cast their votes in 2014 and also in 2016 and many have been residents for 105 years, Mrs Bhattacharya said adding that the Centre has illegally not brought NRC under Right to Information Act.

Trinamul Congress leader Tapas Roy termed the episode as the greatest crisis in the country post Independence.

CPI-M leader Sujan Chakraborty lambasted the BJP alleging that it is an attempt to create unrest in the country.

Mr Chakraborty demanded that all parties should jointly approach the Central government protesting against the move.

Leader of Opposition Abdul Mannan also strongly condemned the issue and appealed to all Opposition parties to bring the state intellectuals under an apolitical umbrella and take the protest to the Centre.

Reacting against this, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said BJP is being termed as ‘Bengali haters’ but Bengalis in Tripura and Assam voted for BJP and now Bengalis of Bengal will do the same.

Once BJP-led government comes to West Bengal then 1.5 crore infiltrators will be pushed back.