NEW DELHI: Eleven opposition parties including the Congress on Thursday submitted a joint memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention on Assam’s national register for citizens ( NRC ) issue and urging him to ensure that not a single Indian citizen was excluded.

Congress, which had seemed wary of jumping into the issue till last week when Mamata Banerjee ’s TMC went on the offensive on the issue, came on board on Thursday, with the party’s senior MP Anand Sharma also part of the 12-member delegation.

Banerjee had met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi last week, apart from 14 other party leaders and spoken to all of them to support her protest against the NRC.

The memorandum submitted by the delegation to Kovind accused the government of undermining the nation’s democratic and secular values and alleged that the draft NRC had resulted in the exclusion of 40 lakh Indians.

