KOLKATA: Hindus and other non-Muslims need not worry about being left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya told ETand said that the NRC process was conducted to identify Bangladeshi Muslims who have come to India illegally for financial benefit and not because of religious persecution.The amended citizenship bill will have the provision to include the persecuted minorities of neighbouring countries including Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Christians as citizens, he said.“We have categorised illegal migrants. One is the persecuted Hindus. The other group is of Bangladeshi Muslims who infiltrated to get financial benefits from the country. So, the Hindus and other non-Muslim migrants do not need to worry. Even if they fail to submit the required documents, the government will protect them,” Vijayvargiya said.“Moreover, they will be awarded citizenship after we bring the citizenship amendment bill in Parliament. But, Bangladeshi Muslims sneaked in to earn money. They are not persecuted. So why should they be part of our electorate?” he said.The BJP legislator from Indore said that there had been several protests in Assam to get the NRC accord implemented, following which the court directed the central and state governments to start the process. “Due to this huge foreign population, our youths were not getting employment.The Bangladeshi infiltrators are thriving on government resources and curtailing the government services and facilities,” he said.Vijayvargiya also pitched for an NRC-like process in West Bengal.“According to our estimates, there would be more than 10 million Bangladeshi Muslims living in Bengal. The consequences are for us to see. Bengal is the conduit for terror funding,” he said.Terming Malda district in the state the “capital of counterfeit currency”, the BJP legislator said, “The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) figures about fake Indian currency notes (FICN) also stated that the maximum number of FICN was circulated from Bengal. Maximum number of rackets was identified in the state and all sorts of illegal movements are also traced here.”According to an internal report of BJP, at least 10 bordering districts in the state have witnessed “disproportionate rise” in the number of electorate. “We have some figures about 10 bordering districts in Bengal. If one compares the census data, it can be found how the demography of these districts changed. Earlier, in five years there used to be an increase of 10-12% in the total electorate. In the last five years, it has seen a fourfold rise. The electorate in these areas grew 40%.”BJP now plans to seek a legal recourse to enforce an NRC-like process in West Bengal.Reacting to the BJP’s efforts, CM Mamata Banerjee said at Kolkata airport on Thursday upon her return from Delhi, “Who are they? What stakes do they have in Bengal? They are just a group of hooligans and goondas. I call political workers as political workers, but I call hooligans as hooligans. Let them come here and touch my soil.”