Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday criticised the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Population Register in ...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday criticised the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Population Register in the state Assembly, saying he also does not have his birth certificate, IANS reported.
Rao suggested that the Centre should introduce a national identity card for citizens instead of implementing the controversial provisions, according to Hindustan Times. Referring to the NPR exercise, the chief minister expressed concern that people were being asked to produce birth documents of their parents to prove their citizenship.
“Honestly speaking, I don’t have my birth certificate,” he added. “If I am asked who I am in this country, what should I say? How do I prove? I was born in my native village, in our own house. There were no hospitals then; so, I don’t have birth certificate.”
The National Population Register – a list of “usual residents” – is scheduled to be updated simultaneously with the house-listing phase of the decennial Census exercise from April 1 to September 30. “Usual residents” are those who have stayed at a place for six months or intend to stay there for the next six months. The Centre has argued that the National Population Register has nothing to do with the National Register of Citizens and is part of...
