Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act, the N...
Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register will not take away anyone’s citizenship, PTI reported on Monday.
Addressing a convention of the Nationalist Congress Party in Mumbai, Pawar said it was unnecessary for the state Assembly to pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Population Register, as some other Opposition-ruled states had done.
Pawar’s uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar had said last month that like eight other states, Maharashtra too should bring a resolution against the CAA, NRC and NPR. Sharad Pawar was present at Sunday’s event, but did not contradict his nephew.
Ajit Pawar said some people have been spreading misinformation about the CAA, NRC and NPR. He referred, as evidence, to a resolution passed by the Bihar Assembly last month to not implement the NRC in the state. The Assembly had also said that the NPR would be implemented according to its 2010 format, not the new format proposed by the Narendra Modi-led central government.
At the same event, Sharad Pawar blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the violence between supporters and opponents of the...
