Bihar Assembly unanimously passes resolution to not implement NRC

The Bihar Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution not to implement the National Register of Citizens in the State. “When the government has issued a gazette notification to begin the process of NPR in the State from May 15 to June 28 as Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi had tweeted earlier, the Chief Minister should clarify how he has been saying NPR will be implemented in its old 2010 format,” asked Tejashwi Yadav. Deputy Chief Minister and senior State BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who presented Budget in the House, said when the “Chief Minister of the State said that the NPR would be implemented in its 2010 format, there is no question of not doing this”. The Prime Minister and other senior State BJP leaders had even undertaken a ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’ in different districts of Bihar to make people aware about the CAA, the NRC and the NPR. State Assembly Speaker Vijay Chaudhury had to adjourn the proceedings of the House for sometime in the first half of the session after the ruckus created by the Opposition and the ruling party MLAs over the adjournment motion call demand on the CAA, the NRC and the NPR.