The imam of a prominent city mosque has asked Muslims to ensure that documents proving their citizenship and other legal records were in order and up to date.
The appeal by the imam of Nakhoda mosque, Maulana Shafique Qasmi, was made at the congregation after the Friday prayers.
It comes in the wake of reports that names of 40 lakh people were left out of the final National Register of Citizens draft in Assam and statements of BJP leaders that an NRC exercise should also be undertaken in West Bengal in future.
Necessary updates
The imam said on Saturday that he has already asked the people after Friday prayers to keep the documents ready with them and get necessary updates if required. “Everyone should have the papers like voter identity card, Aadhaar card, land records, property inheritance papers, etc. — in short every single document — so that he can produce the same whenever required,” the cleric said.
