“The VHP demands that the process to create a National Register of Citizens (NRC) be started immediately. Those who are not authorised citizens of India should be deported. Pakistani citizens and its sleeper cells should be driven out,” he said in a statement.

Jain demanded that the Centre start the creation of an NRC alongside the nationwide census exercise.

The VHP leader also demanded a “thorough probe” into reports that some Pakistani nationals had allegedly obtained Aadhaar, ration and voter cards during their stay in India.

Election authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district have ordered a detailed inquiry and registration of an FIR after a Pakistani national, who was repatriated to his native country in wake of the Pahalgam attack, claimed that he voted in India during his 17-year stay.

The inquiry was ordered after Ussama Imtiyaz was heard saying in a video circulating on social media that he had been living in India since 2008.

Though he came to the country on a visa, the video purports to show Imtiyaz claiming he acquired an Aadhaar and other documents and enrolled himself as a voter in India. PTI PK PK SZM SZM