The United Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella grouping of Muslim organizations headed by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), on Monday urged the Telangana government to stay work on National Population Register (NPR). Speakers at the protest meeting organized by the UMAC against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) and the NPR said Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao should stay NPR work like his Kerala counterpart.
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi said they would meet the Chief Minister once again to urge him to stop the NPR. The Hyderabad MP said while they welcome the Chief Minister’s decision to pass a resolution against CAA in the Assembly, this alone would not be a solution. Owaisi said his party would raise the issue in the Assembly and demand a stay on the NPR as such a step alone could stop work on the NRC.
On Telangana Home Minister Mehmood Ali’s reported statement that NPR is only for data collection, Owaisi said the minister should know that the same data would be used to identify doubtful citizens. The MP said Mehmood Ali should not forget that he is not the minister of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) alone but the minister for the entire Telangana.
