Union minister for labour and employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar said on Sunday that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel should specifically concentrate on development of his state rather than making comments on federal functioning of the country.
He made the statement while addressing media persons in Raipur while launching pro-CAA drive in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh.
Endorsing Gangwar’s comment and reacting to a recent statement of Baghel on NRC, former Chief Minister Raman Singh told newspersons Rs CAA and NRC are totally different to each other’.
Rs Rs Chhattisgarh can’t grant separate citizenship to anyone. Centre has its own subject, state has its own while citizenship is matter of union government’’ remarked Raman Singh who was chief minister of the state for 15 years.
He further stated that with large influx of Bangladeshis’ in Assam during Bangaldesh War in 1971, local residents began protest in 1980 after which Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 entered with a tri-partite accord with All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and during Manmohan Singh regime too the central government didn’t implement the accord.
He informed that Supreme Court while acting on a petition filed by an NGO had laid down the framework of NRC in subsequent orders in 2013, 2015 and 2018 monitoring the whole process of registration. So, it was just Assam specific NRC.