Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Congress and Left parties attacked PM Narendra Modi's statement regarding National Citizen Register (NRC). In the public meeting of Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, PM Modi said that there has never been any discussion in his government on the implementation of NRC across the country.
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Expressing surprise at PM Modi's statement on NRC, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that whenever a major policy is brought, it is churned at the government level. This type of policy is not suddenly presented to the country without discussion. Secondly, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said in Parliament that NRC will be implemented in the entire country. Pawar further said that President Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing the joint session of Parliament, had talked about implementing NRC across the country.
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He said that the President puts forward the policies of the government. Now PM Modi is saying that NRC has been implemented only in Assam and that too on the order of Supreme Court. Pawar said that the government has failed on every front and he feels that such types of issues are being raised and statements are being made to divert the attention of the people.