NPR, NRC & CAA are two sides of the same coin, Says Chidambaram

New Delhi: Former Union Minister and Senior Congress Leader P. Chidambaram has said that National Population Register(NPR), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are two sides of the same coin. NPR and NRC will identify and exclude. CAA will include. It is two sides of same coin. They are Siamese twins.

According to News Agency ANI, Chidambaram said, ‘The content of NPR we did & what they’re doing are different. We asked about 15 fields. They added 6 fields about your last place of residence, place of birth of your father & mother, your driver’s licence number,voter ID & Aadhar. Why’re they asking these things?’

Chidambaram said that NPR is clearly linked to NRC. Why did Home Minister not say we are doing NPR, we will not do NRC? Let them say categorically that NRC is ruled out. We only did NPR, it aided the census. We stopped with the census.

They (BJP) must also say we are not doing NRC because we have bitter experience of Assam NRC. When we did NPR 2010, there was no Assam NRC. We did not have bitter experience of more than 19 lakh people being declared stateless, said Chidambaram

Talking to ANI, Chidambaram said. ‘We aren’t provoking anti-CAA protests,we’re staging anti-CAA protests & we’re proud of it.Why’re they calling us provocateurs?We’re propagating our point of view & if students, youth, women are supporting our point of view & coming out on streets what’s wrong with it.’

The elephant in the room is 19 lakh, six thousand, six hundred and fifty seven. Why do you ignore that elephant? That elephant is sitting there. In the face of that elephant, you see that elephant and you pretend that there is no problem; said Chidambram.