New Delhi: In a mighty twist against Congress amid nationwide protests over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), documents that are readily available in the public domain show that plans for NRC and NPR were upfront during the UPA regime.
This particular argument has been already put forward by the NDA government who are being attacked by the Congress over the recent passage of the CAA in the Parliament.
The section on FAQs for NPR on the website of Register General and Census Commissioner of the MHA, defines the NPR as ‘a register of usual residents of the country’. The objective being to create a comprehensive identity database in the country with full identification and other details by registering each and every usual resident in the country.
The section National Population Register on page 146 of the report says that ‘After the NPR is created, it will engulf the UID database, being far more comprehensive and will become the mother database for identity purposes.
Also in a PIB release dated 13 December 2011, it clarifies on the detention camps and has mentioned, ” The Government of Assam has set up three detention camps, at Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar to keep the declared foreigners/ illegal migrants till deportation to their place of origin.”
