BJP using bill to bag Lok Sabha seats in Northeast: Congress

Guwahati: The Congress in Assam has said that the BJP is using the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to grab Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, with ex-minister and senior Congress leader Pradyut Bordoloi going to the extent of calling Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma the new Jinnah of India. “Suddenly, there has been a lot of activity surrounding the Citizenship Bill, but this is an old RSS agenda to increase the number of Hindus in India,” he said.