New Delhi: Alliances who have been opposing government attempt to introduce amended citizenship act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) today demanded legislation and formalisation (in the form of amendment in Citizenship Rules 2003) of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's assurance in the Upper House of the the Parliament that no one will be marked as D (doubtful citizens) during the updation of NPR.
Welcoming Home Minister Amit Shah's assurance for not marking anyone as a doubtful citizen during NPR exercise, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav said we now seek legalization and formulation of the same by way of the union government amending The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. Such an amendment may remove any reference to NPR in the above mentioned rules of 2003.
"Alternatively, the government main delete Rule 3(5), 4(3), 4(4) which allows NPR to be used for identifying citizens as doubtful and their deletion from the NRC. The government may also suitably amend Rule 7(2) and 17 to ensure that providing information in NPR is voluntary and that no one would be penalized for failure to provide information," he added.
Yogendra Yadav further reiterated that as soon as the government carries out the amendments which we have demanded, we would be prepared to withdraw the call for boycotting NPR but the movement against CAA and NRC shall continue.
Researcher and social activist Harsh Mander said that the government must save the census by delinking it from NPR and amend Citizenship rules to ensure implementation of Amit Shah's statement in Rajya Sabha.
He further added that after the CAA many people in the country are in fear and they think that they will be sent out of the country by this government, as it is mentioned in the act. But if they amend it and it is on paper, then only people can believe what Shah had said in the Parliament.
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