'Kagaz Nahi Dikhayenge': BJP Mocks Muslim Women Voters Of Delhi; Says Keep Documents Safe For NPR

On its official Twitter handle, BJP Karnataka posted a video where Muslims women can be seen standing in queue flashing their voter IDs at a polling booth waiting for their turn to cast votes.

Voting for the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 began at 8 am on Saturday. (Image: BJP Karnataka/Twitter video screengrab)

New Delhi: As the national capital on Saturday stepped out to vote to selected its next Legislative Assembly, Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit took a dig at the women voters who were apparently standing in a queue outside a polling booth in Delhi. On its official Twitter handle, BJP Karnataka posted a video where Muslims women can be seen standing in queue flashing their voter IDs at a polling booth waiting for their turn to cast votes. BJP Karnataka posted the video and captioned it: "Kaagaz Nahi Dikayenge Hum" ! ! ! Keep the documents safe, you will need to show them again during NPR [National Population Register] exercise".

"Kaagaz Nahi Dikayenge Hum" ! ! !

Keep the documents safe, you will need to show them again during #NPR exercise.#DelhiPolls2020 pic.twitter.com/bEojjeKlwI — BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) February 8, 2020

Voting for the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 began at 8 am on Saturday and will conclude at 6 pm. Results for the same will be announced on February 11. 'Kagaz Nahi Dikhayenge' (won't show papers) is a popular catchphrase of a poem written by comedian-writer Varun Grover which soon became a strong slogan of the nationwide protests against contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register) NPR. The anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters have took to streets across the country vowing not to cooperate with the Central government by submitting their documents to prove their Indian citizenship. ALSO WATCH | Delhi Election 2020: First Time Voters Excited To Cast Vote However, the tweet from BJP seems to go against what the party has recently said about the NPR. Earlier this week, in written replies to specific questions on NPR, the Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said that no document is to be collected during the exercise to update the national population data. He assured that citizens will only have to provide information true to the best of their knowledge and belief. As per the government, NPR is a register of the usual residents of the country. It contains information collected at the local (village/sub-town), sub-district, district, state and national level under provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.