Resist NPR! Amit Shah is deliberately deceiving
Sukla Sen
To be sure, *no one, from the government, has as yet said that NRC won't be done*.
The moment the NPR is done - i.e. collection of data and the preparation of the National Population Register, the next stage of the NRC process will start with the preparation of the lists of Doubtful Citizens, based on the NPR.
The subsequent stages will just follow culminating in stripping a huge number of their citizenship and being turned stateless.
The CAA would help hardly anybody outside of the Northeast and, also, West Bengal - if at all.
The whole "process" of determination of citizenship is solely based on the "discretion" of the concerned government officials - with no specific parameters laid down.
To recap:
*Amit Shah is deliberately misleading*.
No "D" at the NPR stage.
The "D" list would be made based on the NPR, in the next stage of the NRC.
The consequences to follow.
《Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said no one would be marked “doubtful” if they did not provide all the information sought for the preparation of the National Population Register (NPR), adding that no documents needed to be furnished during the process, either.
Shah was responding in the Rajya Sabha to a specific question on the NPR from Congress MP Kapil Sibal during a discussion on the Delhi riots, for which the home minister and the BJP have sought to blame the countrywide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
“No document will be sought under the NPR. You are free to give whatever information you want. Nobody will be marked a doubtful citizen. No one should be scared of the NPR process,” Shah said amid a volley of questions from the Opposition.
The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, empowers the local registrar to mark out people as “doubtful” at the verification stage.
Sub-rule 4 of Rule 4 of the Citizenship Rules for Preparation of the National Register of Indian Citizens states: “During the verification process, particulars of such individuals, whose citizenship is doubtful, shall be entered by the local registrar with appropriate remark in the population register for further enquiry and in case of doubtful citizenship, the individual or the family shall be informed in a specified proforma immediately after the verification process is over.”
Every person or family specified in sub-rule 4 of Rule 4 will be given an opportunity to be heard by the sub-district or taluk registrar of citizens’ registration, before the final decision is taken to include or to exclude their particulars in the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Although the Narendra Modi government has for now backed down on a nationwide NRC in the face of protests across the country — after Shah had said in the Lok Sabha on December 9 that “it is coming” — the fact remains that the government has more than once said in Parliament that the NPR is the “mother database for creating the National Register for Indian Citizens”.
The home ministry’s annual report of 2018-19 said: “The National Population Register is the first step towards the creation of the National Register for Indian Citizens.”》
(Excerpted from: <https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/amit-shahs-npr-word-vs-rule/cid/1753251?fbclid=IwAR27t6Vj6qk0r4Qjg9Ibzpqxs6e9htZn116szSwOoFjyABmaQsKGGxl_uEs>.)
(The chart below is excerpted from: <https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-assembly-aap-govt-resolution-npr-nrc-6312569/?fbclid=IwAR3TjIu-8iKe-3uQdUYdf3VnBB1U9jYZJ3drilC4Cdayz921VxrHgS2DaUk>.)
