Mamata Banerjee told Amit Shah that genuine Indians belonging to Bengali, Bihari, Gorkha and Assamese communities were excluded from the NRC in Assam and sought his intervention to ameliorate their miseries.

"I have come to meet the home minister to discuss the NRC in Assam and told him that many genuine Indians were excluded from the list. I have requested him to do the needful so that they can be included in the NRC as they are in distress," West Bengal chief minister told reporters after the meeting with Indian Home Minister.

Mamata said that among those who were excluded from the National Register of Citizens include many Bengali, Bihari, Gorkhas and even Assamese, reports PTI.

"I have requested him to examine their cases and resolve the issues," she said.

The final NRC, a list of Assam's residents published on Aug 31, excluded the names of 1.9 million people.

"The home minister has assured me that he would look into it," she said.

Asked whether there was any discussion on the implementation of the NRC in West Bengal, Banerjee said no such discussion has taken place but it was her stated position that such an initiative was not required in her state.

"Even Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the NRC was not required in his state," she said.

Mamata said she has come to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Meeting the Prime Minister and the home minister is a constitutional obligation. Besides, we have international border issues with Bangladesh and Bhutan and state borders with Bihar and Jharkhand. We also have the sensitive 'chicken's neck' (corridor connecting north-eastern states with the rest of the country). So meeting with the home minister is in that context necessarily," she said.

Mamata has met Modi on Wednesday (Sept 18) and raised the issue of renaming the eastern state of West Bengal.

Banerjee also invited Modi to inaugurate a coal block in the state. The coal block is the second largest in the world, she said.