CPI (M) has also demanded recognition as Scheduled Castes of the Namashudra dalit communities among refugees from Bangladesh which had been done in West Bengal but not in many other other States where the refugees had been settled such as in UP,Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. These States run by the BJP had refused to grant them SC status. The Party did adopt a resolution at the Party Congress and a letter was subsequently written to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. However never ever has the CPI(M) supported a policy of exclusion of Muslims from any policy decision, leave alone a discriminatory law regarding citizenship rights of those who have come from Bangladesh. The CPI(M) is totally opposed to any such differentiation in the definition of eligibility for citizenship on the basis of religion.