Close on the heels of the Telangana government which decided to put on hold the implementation of National Population Register for now, YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh, too, has taken a similar decision not to implement the NPR.
Andhra chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday tweeted that some of the questions proposed in the NPR were causing insecurity feeling in the minds of minorities in the state.
“After elaborate consultations within our party, we have decided to request the Central government to revert the conditions to those prevailing in 2010. To this effect, we will also introduce a resolution in the upcoming assembly session,” the chief minister said in his tweet.
Jagan’s tweets followed his meeting with a delegation of Muslim representations at his camp office at Tadepalli in the afternoon. The Muslim representatives expressed a lot of concern over the questions being asked by the officials as part of NPR during the census work.
The Telangana government, too, last week, decided to put on hold the NPR exercise for the time being. Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, too, proposed to move a resolution in the legislative assembly during the ensuing budget session, urging the Centre to implement the old format of NPR, instead of the revised one proposed for 2020 Census.
The Telangana chief minister also announced that a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would also be passed in the state assembly.
