Eyeing on the Delhi's Assembly elections, the Delhi Congress on Sunday said that if the Congress is voted to power in Delhi, it will not implement the National Population Register (NPR), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The Chairman of the Manifesto Committee moved a resolution in the first meeting of the Manifesto Committee that was adopted unanimously by the party on Sunday.
Addressing the media, Delhi Congress President Subhash Chopra hit out at BJP- ruled centre, saying that it has raised such issues just before the Delhi Assembly election to divert people's attention from pressing issues like economic distress, price rise and unemployment.
Chopra also demanded the Delhi Government to call a special session of the Delhi Assembly to clear its stand on CAA and the police attack on students of the Jamia Millia University for protesting against the act.
Highlighting the differences between NPR of 2010 and the NPR of 2020, Maken said that the Modi Government has added six new illegal clauses now. "The BJP Government has added six new questions to the NPR that is violation of Article 14 in the Constitution," he said.
The NPR requires people to declare the "date and place of birth of both parents" for the first time. In the last NPR, data was collected on 15 criteria. This time data on 21 points will be collected," he said, adding that in this NPR, a person like me might have a problem- if a person like me is asked where your father and mother were born; my parents were born in Pakistan. Where will I get their details," Maken asked?