New Delhi: Ahead of wintwe session, a delegation of Congress leaders met Sonia Gandhi on Saturday to submit a ground report on the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). The leaders who met Sonia Gandhi were Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, Bhawar Jitender Singh, Manickam Tagore, Ranjit Mukherjee, and Mohammed Khan.

According to the leaders there is a consensus among the people of North East States across all religions and castes that Citizenship Amendment Bill should not be passed which is already in the governments' agenda for this winter session.

A delegation of Congress MLAs from Manipur, headed by Ibobi Singh, also met Sonia Gandhi yesterday. "All the MLAs from Manipur have come for two important issues to meet the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. Once this bill is passed, our apprehension is that those people who are not indigenous people, who are staying in Bangladesh, Pakistan or Afghanistan will start to enter Manipur because Manipur is the extreme border of the northeast border of Myanmar," Ibobi Singh told reporters.

Ibobi Singh added, "We fear that Manipur will become a dumping ground of foreigners. That is why we have met Sonia Gandhi, we have submitted a copy of these two bills."

(With ANI inputs)