India, Nov. 9 -- The Bill is drawing flak from civil and students' bodies of the Northeast.

NEW DELHI: The BJP is all set to pass the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019, which had lapsed in the Rajya Sabha, during the Parliament's winter session. According to the BJP sources, the Bill will provide relief to Hindu Bengalis in Assam who were left out of the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on 31 August.

According to some unofficial estimates, the number of Hindu Bengalis excluded from the NRC is around 5-8 lakh. Similarly, thousands of indigenous people have also found their names missing from the final list.

As the BJP is also pushing for the NRC in West Bengal, a party source told The Sunday Guar...