NEW DELHI: With the Budget session of Parliament due to begin later this week, Congress is readying a “vigorous” two-pronged attack on the Modi government over the controversial CAA-NRC-NPR as well as on the downward spiral of the economy.
Party sources said the session will see Congress corner the government over economic stress, increasing joblessness, plunging GDP and rising inflation on the one hand, while on the other, it will also continue its attack on the government over its “communal and divisive” agenda — displayed though the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
Congress will also hold a training session for its MPs, general secretaries and senior party functionaries on February 4, to explain to them the differences between the NPR proposed by BJP — with the additional questions — and the one that was mooted by the UPA government in its first term. Party sources said the leadership feels there is a need to have complete clarity among its members on what Congress is opposing in the new NPR and why it believes that the additional data is, in fact, being collected as a pre-cursor to NRC.
“After coming under attack over NRC, the government has now mooted NPR which is nothing but the first step to NRC. While the government is now trying to confuse people by claiming that the information sought under NPR is optional, we want to expoRead More – Source
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