65.4 percent people want NRC to be implemented across country

NEW DELHI: About 65.4 percent of the people across the country and 76.9 percent of the people in Assam want the National Register of Citizens to be implemented across India while 66 percent of the Muslim community opposes the idea, according to to an IANS-CVoter survey.

The snap poll was carried out on over 3,000 citizens across the country between December 17 to 19 with a booster sample of over 500 people each in Assam, the northeast and Muslim community collected during the same period.

As per the survey, 65.4 percent of people across the country want the implementation of the NRC across the country, 28.3 percent of people opposed the measure, while 6.3 percent of people did not want to comment on the issue and or said that they don't know about it.

However, among the Muslims, 66.2 percent of people did not want the NRC to be implemented across the country while 28.5 percent of them favoured the idea. Among Hindus, 72.1 percent favoured the idea while 21.3 percent opposed it.

The report also showed that in east, west, north and south India, 65.9, 67.5, 73.8 and 52.1 percent people wanted the NRC to be implemented across the country while 31.4 percent in east, 22.1 percent in west, 20.1 percent in North and 40.6 percent in South India did not want the NRC to be implemented. (IANS)

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