15:24 February 25
Bihar Assembly passes resolution against NRC
Patna (Bihar): The Bihar Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to not implement the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state.
Further, the assembly also passed a resolution to implement the National Population Register (NPR) in its 2010 form, with an amendment.
"Bihar Government has written to Centre seeking omission of 'Contentious Clauses' from the NPR forms," Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said in the Assembly.
Replying to a debate on an adjournment motion moved by Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav and others, Kumar told the assembly that there should be "no confusion" regarding how the NPR exercise would be carried out in the state and that nobody would be asked to furnish information like places of birth of parents.
Reading out the text of the letter to the Centre, Kumar said it has also been proposed by the Bihar government that "transgenders" be included in the gender column.
A strong opponent of the National Register for Citizens despite alliance with the BJP, Kumar, disapproved of "hauva" (bogey) of the NRC being raised by the opposition despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's categorical statement that a countrywide implementation was not on the anvil.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
