No resident being driven out of Assam due to draft NRC: Rajnath

New Delhi, Jan 4: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday assured the Lok Sabha that no citizen or resident is being driven out of Assam following the publication of first draft of National Register of Citizens.

Making a brief intervention during Zero Hour, Mr Singh said the allegation that people are being driven out of Assam after the publication of the first draft is "baseless".
He said even the Supreme Court has said that there is "no need" to apprehend anything if a person's name does not appear in the first draft. They can always bring it to the notice of the authorities, the Home Minister said.
Mr Singh was responding to Zero Hour mention made by Swagat Roy of Trinamool Congress, who said "Bengalis" are being driven out of Assam after the publication of the NRC first draft.
He was supported by his colleagues.
Earlier as soon as the House assembled to begin day's proceedings, Mr Roy said he has given a notice of adjournment motion on the issue as Bengalis were being "driven out" of Assam. 
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, however, rejected the notice of adjournment.
Before the day's proceedings began, the Trinamool Congress members from both Houses of Parliament also staged a demonstration outside Parliament on the issue. UNI