Barely one-and-a-half kilometres from the upscale Gomti Nagar locality in Lucknow, Rupachan Ali (33) and his wife Bimala Khatoon sat in their rented under-construction house in Malesamau on Friday night.

They clutched their documents — Aadhaar card , voter ID, National Register of Citizens ( NRC ) certificate — fearing that someone would raise questions about their identity.

A day earlier, the couple who hail from Assam, along with three others from the state, were grilled by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Brij Lal while they were sweeping a road.

The MP had uploaded a video of himself stopping the five workers in Gomti Nagar Extension, accusing them of belonging to Bangladesh and labelling them “ghuspaithiya (infiltrators)”.

Asked about the video, Rupachan said, “We were just doing

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