The top court rapped Ministry of Home Affairs for its plea seeking to stall the NRC work for two weeks keeping in mind the role of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in the election duty.
The top court also said that the upcoming general election and exercise of NRC should not be affected, and asked the competent authorities to sit together to plan them.
Introducing the bill, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the bill will pave the way for Indian citizenship to the “persecuted religious minorities”---the Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis---from the three countries.
The process of filing claims and objections to the draft NRC commenced on September 25 following a directive from the Supreme Court. The process will come to an end on December 15.
Mamata questioned if the killings were related to recent developments linked to NRC in Assam.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi also allowed claimants for Assam NRC to rely on five documents which were earlier objected to by NRC coordinator.
There is no need to re-submit the documents submitted earlier but if additional documents are required to be submitted, then any one or more of the 10 documents listed by the Supreme Court, under whose supervision the NRC is being updated, must be submitted.
The bench made clear that the second opportunity has been granted to the citizens keeping in mind the "magnitude" of the issue.
Slamming those who have said that India will have to face international criticism if illegal immigrants are deported, the BJP leader said even Bangladesh has been in active talks with Myanmar to deport lakhs of Rohingya people, who have taken shelter there to escape persecution in Myanmar.
The top court had termed the issue as "human problem with great magnitude" and had asked the state NRC coordinator to submit a report in a sealed cover on the ramification of allowing the claimants to file new sets of legacy documents.
Sonowal, 55, was responding to a question on Banerjee's comment that the NRC exercise in Assam was done with a "political motive" to divide people and it would lead to "bloodbath" and a "civil war" in the country.
A total of five FIRs have been registered against Banerjee in Assam since the publication of the NRC final draft on July 30.
The same Mamata Banerjee during the Left Front rule in West Bengal had raise a hue and cry over illegal Bangladeshis staying in her state.
Rajnath Singh stressed that the Assam NRC draft, which has triggered a huge debate across the country, is completely transparent.
TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had sent a delegation to assess the situation in Assam post-NRC.
The 16-minute video was part of a report submitted by a one-member commission which was tasked by the Supreme Court in 2015 to study the on-ground reality of infiltration in Assam through Bangladesh.
Large number of illegal migrants, who did not find a mention in Assam’s draft NRC, might try to enter the state to evade deportation, AAPSU general secretary Tobom Dai said.
Jaitley had accused Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee of playing with India's sovereignty on the NRC issue.
BJP president Amit Shah was not allowed to speak over the issue in Rajya Sabha for the second consecutive day as Opposition MPs resorted to sloganeering as soon as he stood up present his views.
While the ruling BJP and the Opposition led by the Congress and Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress are engaged in a slugfest over the issue, the NRC draft released on Monday has exposed several irregularities.
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