Tripura CM slams NE parties for opposing citizenship bill

Slamming political parties of the North East for opposing the citizenship bill, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said infiltration is a problem for the nation and the bill is meant to address the issue.

Deb, while speaking to reporters on Friday night, said the political parties of the northeastern region is giving the impression that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has been prepared for the region alone, which is not true.

The parties of the region are deliberately misleading the people to serve their own interests, he alleged.

"The way some political parties in the northeastern region have been agitating against the bill, it appears that it has been prepared and passed in the Lok Sabha only for northeast India.

"We need to understand that the bill was introduced in the Parliament, keeping in mind the interests of the whole country," Deb told reporters at the Civil Secretariat here.

He also said that every individual or political party has the right to