The squirming of Congress, Leftists and other opposition parties, to counter the Modi Government's decisions, knows no bound. They have been using all the tricks of political trade, right or wrong, to create chaos and confusion in the country, this time on CAA, NPR NRIC etc seemingly by misleading and provoking the Muslims in India and elsewhere.
Days after it refused to grant stay on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Supreme Court on Monday denied another plea to halt National Population Register (NPR) too. Though it has ordered notices to the Centre, the top court's refusal to stay the government's decisions means it is not ready to stop CAA and NPR unless it is clearly convinced that they are bad to the interests of the country.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant, issued notice to the Centre on the PIL which also challenged the rules made in 2003 for registration of citizens and issuance of National Identity Cards.
The plea, filed by another leftist platoon represented by Udagar Ram, Bimalesh Kumar Yadav and Sanjay Safi, has said that the NPR updation is ‘arbitrary' as it puts citizens, non-citizens and persons seeking overseas citizenship ‘at par' asking the same information from the entire population residing within the country.
The Congress and leftist brigades led by pseudo Intellectuals in India are restless in finding anything and everything to find out a clue that they would use to nail Modi government to whom they have not accepted despite a huge mandate by the people of India in a very vibrant democracy.
It has challenged the amendment which was inserted in Section 14-A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 through an amendment in 2004 on the ground that this provision empowered the Centre to ‘compulsorily register' every citizen of India and to issue national identity card to one.
“The Central government does not have a stated need to prepare a National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) for which the creation and up-dation of a Population Register is first step,' the plea said. “The information being collected for the updation of the NPR may lead to unsanctioned State surveillance or unauthorized access by other arms of the State or even unauthorized access by third parties leading to grave misuse,” it said.
It said the updation of NPR would amount to different expenditure from that incurred in taking Census and added that the Cabinet has approved Rs 8,754 crore for the 2021 Census and an additional sum of Rs 3,941 crore for updation of NPR.
The plea also said that the exercise of NPR assumes that people in India are not its citizens and shifts the onus of proving citizenship on the person itself. “The exercise of updation of the NPR by deeming fiction assumes that all the persons residing within the territory of India are not citizens of India and shifts the onus to the person to disclose information to prove their citizenship. This is seemingly done, without an investigation by the State to establish that the person is engaged in an unlawful activity,” the petition said. National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC)
The truth of Shaheen Bagh camping and siege has already exposed the very premises of which it has been organised and prolonged by the arrest of its coordinator JNU's Sharjeel Imam who was delivering a speech to cut off the Assam and North-east from India – an anti-national and secessionist narrative of these Tukde-Tukde gang.
