“The Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi, in its sitting held in Delhi on 13
March, 2020, resolves:
Taking note of the fact that the Parliament of India has recently made certain
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“The Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi, in its sitting held in Delhi on 13
March, 2020, resolves:
Taking note of the fact that the Parliament of India has recently made certain
amendments to the Citizenship Act, 1955 through CAA which was assented to by
Hon’ble President of India on 12 December, 2019,
Taking further note of the fact that the exercise for updating National Population
Register (NPR) is going to start very soon vide which data on 9 new points are
proposed to be obtained,
Taking note of the fact that there is widespread belief among public that the
Government of India (GoI) will seek documents from the public to prove their
citizenship and prepare a National Register of Citizens (NRC) thereafter based on
the documents obtained and the new NPR,
Taking further note of the fact that there is fear and panic writ-large in the society
about NRC which will determine who is not a citizen and all such people will be
sent to detention centres,
With the considered view that since independence no other issue has agitated the
minds of the people of India as much as the issue of NRC and the fear of being
thrown into detention centres arbitrarily,
Viewing grimly the resultant prolonged agitations across India against NPR/NRC,
With the hope that the genuine questions that are agitating the minds of citizenry
such as:
- Will NPR data feed into NRC?
- When will NRC be started?
- What documents will be accepted as conclusive proof of citizenship?
- If a bona fide citizen is not in possession of any of these documents, how does
- he/she obtain them now? will be answered by the Government of India, in true democratic spirit, to the
satisfaction of those living in fear of being thrown into detention centres,
That more than 90% of the people of India won’t have expected documents and the
whole exercise of seeking documents to prove their citizenship will put the citizens
of India to untold miseries, cause widespread panic and create a peculiar situation
when such large number of people will be unable to prove their citizenship,
Earnestly appeals to the Government of India that in the interest of the Nation,
particularly when the economy is witnessing worst ever down slide and the
unemployment is witnessing terrifying growth and with the threat of Corona
pandemic looming large, it invests all its energies and resources on real needs of
the people of India rather than unnecessary issues like NPR/NRC,
Therefore, urges upon Government of India to withdraw and not carry out the
whole exercise of NPR and NRC;
Should the Government of India insist on going ahead, to restrict the exercise to
NPR only with 2010 format with no new fields added to it.”
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