MHA Tells Parliament EU MPs’ Kashmir Tour Was Private Visit Organised By Delhi Think Tank indiatoday.in

In a brief released on Tuesday, the US International Commission on Religious Freedom (USICRF) said, “The NRC as a tool to target religious minorities and, in particular, to render Indian Muslims stateless has become one more example of the downward trend in religious freedom conditions within India.”

The brief said that 1.9 million people in Assam were at risk of becoming stateless.

The brief is a part of the latest political push in the US against India over human rights to expand the campaign beyond the Kashmir issue to Assam using the NRC.

Several persons who criticized India before two Congressional panels for rescinding the special status of Kashmir and imposing restrictions there also brought up the NRC in Assam.

A press release accompanying the release of the brief quoted from USICRF Commissioner Anurima Bhargava’s testimony on Kashmir last week before the House of Representative Lantos Commission on Human Rights at a hearing labeled as “Jammu and Kashmir in Context.”