Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath late evening on Monday announced that National Population Register (NPR) won’t be implemented in the central Indian state.
A Congress MLA from Bhopal Arif Masood had threatened stir in case NPR wasn’t rejected by MP government.
“Chief Minister Kamal Nath has clearly stated that NPR won’t be implemented in the state,” a letter from MP Congress Committee issued late evening on Monday said.
“The announcement of NPR discussed here is dated Dec 19, 2019 after which the Central government had notified CAA. So the NPR announcement wasn’t under CAA. It was under the Citizenship Act 1955 under the amendment made in 2003 in the rule no 3,” the letter stated.
PC Sharma, the Public Relations minister claimed that NPR notification reported recently pertains to Dec 2019.
“The CAA came after it so the notification was not under the CAA. Also, there are clear directives from the CM that NPR won’t be implemented in the state,” added Sharma.
Raising similar objections of NPR not being the part of CAA, Congress MLA Arif Masood on Monday afternoon had threatened to launch a statewide stir if the state government did not reject NPR that is supposed to be undertaken nationally from April 1, as per the gazette notification of the Centre.
We would launch Kagaz Nahin Dikhayenge (won’t show papers) campaign after a mega show of dissent in last week of February, the lawmaker had said saying the census with several amendments wasn’t acceptable to Muslims.
To add, the Kamal Nath cabinet had recently passed a government resolution urging the Centre to roll back the CAA and allay fears tagged with the NPR before the process of census is undertaken in the country.
(With Inputs from ANI)