Prashant Kishor outlines future course of action to stop implementation of CAA & NRC

Janata Dal (United) vice president Prashant Kishor on Sunday listed two effective methods via which implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act and impending nationwide National Register of Citizens exercise could be halted. First, he vised people to continue peaceful protests utilising all possible forums. reafter, he reckoned that it was crucial for a majority of  n-BJP Chief Ministers to oppose National Register of Citizens in ir respective states. Kishor opined that any or moves were symbolic of tokenism.  

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Kishor questions Congress leership

Kishor has been vociferously speaking against CAA and NRC. He even disagreed with his own party’s decision to back legislation in Parliament. On Saturday, Kishor slammed Congress leership on its absence in nationwide protest against  Citizenship Amendment Act. He was reacting to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s video statement where she took on BJP. Kishor contended that Gandhi’s remarks would be rendered meaningless unless CMs of Congress-ruled states declared ir opposition to National Register of Citizens. 

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CAA and NRC

While CAA is a legislation that has been passed by both Houses of Parliament, government has described NRC as "a rmal process" to register one's name in Citizens’ Register. While re has been formal anuncement of a nationwide NRC so far, many leers of BJP including Union Home Minister Amit Shah have stated that it would commence very soon. CAA seeks to provide citizenship to mirity communities namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Banglesh and Pakistan. This will be applicable to members of se communities having arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014. Moreover, y will t be considered as illegal migrants. ditionally, mandatory residence period for naturalised citizenship for se communities would be reduced to 5 years. 

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