Bangladesh's main opposition party, Bangladesh National Party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has said that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state of Assam in India threatens Bangladesh's independence and sovereignty.

According to United News of Bangladesh, the BNP leader said this to reporters at an event in Mirpur.

Islam Alamgir said, "We have been saying from the beginning that we are concerned about NRC in India." We feel that Bangladesh's independence and sovereignty from the NRC in India is at risk. "Along with Alamgir, many other big leaders of the party were present.

He said that NRC will destabilize the entire subcontinent, not just Bangladesh. Alamgir said, "NRC will promote conflict and violence in this subcontinent."

The senior BNP leader said that the main objective of NRC is to establish communal politics by destroying liberal and secular politics.

Alamgir said that his party president Khalida Zia was 'tortured' by Pakistani security forces during the liberation struggle.

Referring to NRC, the BNP leader also targeted the current Hasina government of Bangladesh.

He said, "The current government has destroyed the dreams of the freedom fighters of Bangladesh as well as the core spirit of the freedom struggle, along with the end of democracy. The government has also ended all our achievements as a country. We have lost our democracy and our rights.''

Bangladesh has also reacted strongly to India's citizenship amendment law. Not only this, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momin and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan have also canceled their visit to India.

Earlier Abdul Momin had strongly opposed the statement of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, in which he had spoken about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh.

Momin had said, "What they are saying about the persecution of Hindus is non-essential and false. There are few countries in the world where there is communal harmony like Bangladesh. We do not have any minority here. We are all equal. As a neighboring country, we hope that India will not do anything that would spoil our friendly relations. This issue has come up before us recently. We will read it carefully and then raise this issue with India.''

Momin had said that India's secular stance would be weakened by this law of citizenship on the basis of religion.

Apart from Bangladesh, Pakistan has also opposed India's citizenship amendment law. Apart from this, the United Nations had also expressed concern that the new law is fundamentally discriminatory.

In a statement issued on Friday by UNHCR, a United Nations body tracking the state of human rights, "we are concerned that the nature of India's new citizenship amendment law is fundamentally discriminatory."

The organization has said that the new law talks of giving citizenship to religious minorities who have come to escape oppression in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, but do not provide this facility to Muslims.

UNHCR has written that all migrants, irrespective of their circumstances, have the right to respect, security and their human rights.

The statement issued by a UNHCR spokesman hoped that the Supreme Court would review the new law and carefully review whether these laws were in line with India's obligations on international human rights.

The citizenship amendment law is being strongly opposed in different parts of India, especially in the northeastern states.

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