Raipur/IBNS: Slamming the Narendra Modi government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) are attacks on poor people.
Addressing media here, Rahul said, "Like demonetisation, NRC, NPR are attacks on poor people . These steps are like demonetisation which took all money from poor people and only benefited 15 rich people."
"Now the poor people are asking for jobs at a time the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is tumbling," the former Congress president added.
Though Chief Ministers of West Bengal and Kerala, Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan respectively, have already put on hold all works regarding the NPR in their states, the Centre on Tuesday sanctioned Rs. 3,941.35 crore for the updation of the process.
Rejecting the Opposition's claims that NPR is a step towards the nationwide NRC, the Centre said the two are not linked.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, making a U-turn from their previous statements, have said the union cabinet has never discussed NRC since the time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
(Image Credit: Congress Twitter)
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