NRC is very important, AAP's strategy revolves around lies: Javadekar

Attacking Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his remarks on the NRC, senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar has said the people understand that the exercise is very important as no country can allow illegal infiltrators to stay, and asserted that his party will repeat the success of Lok Sabha polls in Delhi Assembly election.

Last month, Kejriwal had said if the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is implemented in Delhi, it is the BJP city unit president Manoj Tiwari who will have to leave the national capital first.

This drew sharp reaction from the BJP.

Only Kejriwal has confusion over NRC. This is the understanding of the Delhi chief minister. But it is not what people understand, they know that no country allows illegal infiltrators to stay. Therefore, the NRC is very much important, Javadekar said in an interaction with PTI journalists here.

He said Home Minister Amit Shah has already made it clear that the Citizenship Amendment Bill will be passed.

The Bill seeks to amend a 1955 ..