Delhi Assembly Passes Resolution Against NPR, NRC

Delhi Assembly moves Anti-NPR Resolution: The Delhi government had called a one-day special assembly session on the NRC-NPR issue and the coronavirus situation in the national capital.

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday requested the Centre to withdraw the National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Delhi Assembly today passed a resolution against the NPR and NRC. Not only that, in the assembly, the Delhi CM also challenged Union ministers to show whether they had birth certificates issued by the government. The Delhi government had called a one-day special assembly session on the NRC-NPR issue and the coronavirus situation in the national capital. "Me, my wife, my entire cabinet don't have birth certificates to prove citizenship. Will we be sent to detention centres?" Kejriwal asked. Kejriwal asked the MLAs to raise their hands if they had birth certificates, following which only nine legislators in the 70-member House raised their hands. "Sixty-one members of the House do not have birth certificates," he said. "Will they be sent to detention centres?" The Delhi Assembly's resolution comes a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah, insisted that no document would have to be shown for the NPR. "No document needs to be submitted. You can give whatever information you have and leave the other questions blank," Shah said on Thursday while replying to a discussion on Delhi violence in Rajya Sabha. Earlier in the day, Environment minister Gopal Rai had moved the resolution in the Delhi Assembly against implementation of the National Population Register and said if executed, it should be applied using the procedure of 2010. "... Such a type of thing did not happen even during the British rule. This is raising questions on every person's citizenship," he said in the Assembly. "NPR should not be implemented in Delhi and if it is implemented, it should be done according to the procedure followed in 2010," Rai said.