Asaduddin Owaisi Slams Govt Says Amit Shah Misleading Nation, NPR First Step Towards NRC
His statement comes after the union cabinet cleared NPR at Rs 8700 crore
Mumbai: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over National Population Register and claimed that NPR is the first step towards a National Register of Citizens (NRC).
His statement comes after the union cabinet cleared NPR at Rs 8700 crore.
Asaduddin Owaisi also alleged that the Home Minister is ‘misleading’ the country.
“They are doing NPR according to the Citizenship Act, 1955, then is it not connected to NRC? Why is the Home Minister misleading the country? He took my name in Parliament and said ‘Owaisi Ji NRC will be implemented across the country’. Amit Shah Sahab, as long as the sun keeps rising from the east, we will keep telling the truth. NPR is the first step towards NRC. When NPR will be done in April 2020, officials will ask for documents… The final list will be NRC,” Owaisi told ANI.
Owaisi further said that the MHA had clarified in 2018 that NPR is a step towards the creation of NRC. “I agree that Amit Shah is more educated than me. He should read chapter 15 of his ministry’s 2018-19 annual report. In point number 4, he himself is saying that NPR is the first step towards the creation of NRIC,” Owaisi said.
“On the MHA website, the ministry wrote on NPR that India is in the process of setting up NPR. This is the first step towards the creation of NRC. On 26 November 2014, when Kiren Rijiju was minister, in a reply, he created NPR. The register of all general residents also includes citizens and non-citizens. In another reply, he said that NPR is the first step towards the creation of NRIC.
Meanwhile, Shah had clarified that NPR and NRC were not interlinked. “I am not surprised by the stand taken by Owaisi Ji. If we say the sun rises from the east, then Owaisi Sahab would say it rises from the west. But I want to assure Owaisi Ji too that the NPR is very different from the NRC and it has nothing to do with it,” he had said.
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