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NEW DELHI: Days after the release of draft NRC in Assam , BJP leaders in Mumbai, Delhi and West Bengal have demanded that similar registers of citizens be compiled in their respective cities and state as well.

BJP MLA Raj Purohit said that he has written to district collector of Mumbai along with several other officials to press for the implementation of NRC in not only Mumbai, but across the country.

"I have written to district collector Mumbai, ACS Home, CP Mumbai, State EC to implement NRC and identify the Bangladeshis in Colaba and Mumbai," he said.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari echoed Purohit's demand. "I have written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh stating "please conduct a survey in Delhi too (like NRC) as a large number of Rohingyas and foreign intruders are residing in Delhi and many of them have also attained Aadhaar and ration cards."

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya told reporters that there could be over one crore illegal immigrants in West Bengal and suggest that NRC should be adopted in border states to identify them.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh had earlier said that NRC will be published, on the lines of the one in Assam, if the saffron party was voted to power in the state.

Shah has targeted win in 22 of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the next Lok Sabha polls. In 2014, the TMC had won 34 seats while the BJP could get only two.

The prevailing sense in the BJP is that it could project Banerjee as an "anti-Hindu" leader driven by her "appeasement politics" for minority votes over her strident opposition to the NRC, according to party sources.

Yesterday, Rajasthan home minister Gulabchand Kataria said that states across the country should consider following Assam, which published the final draft of NRC, to weed out illegal migrants.

"In the wake of large number of migrants entering India, different Indian states should consider following Assam," Kataria said on the sidelines of a press conference here at the BJP headquarters.

(With inputs from agencies)

