No decision taken yet on nationwide NRC: Home Ministry tells Parliament
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid the nationwide protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR), the Union Home Minister on Tuesday clarified in Parliament that no decision by the government has been taken to make a nationwide NRC yet, media reports said.
In a written reply in Lok Sabha, the Home Ministry said, "Till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Indian citizens (NRIC) at the national level."
In a U-turn from their previous stands following the nationwide protests against the CAA-NRC-NPR, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah said nothing has been discussed regarding NRC even since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
However, Shah on multiple occasions earlier stated the CAA will be followed by NRC and "all infiltrators will be thrown out".
The CAA aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before 2015.
Several non-BJP states have already stated that they will not allow the implementation of CAA and NRC in their respective states.
Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal have also passed anti-CAA resolutions in their respective state assemblies.
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