New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday attacked the central government over National Population Register (NPR) and said that around 50 to 60 crore citizens of this country would not even know their parents` date of birth.
Azad along with the party leader Anand Sharma and leaders from DMK, NCP, RJD, CPM, CPI and TMC gave suspension of business notice in Rajya Sabha under rule 267 over "prevailing situation in the country".
Azad said, "Ever since Citizenship Amendment Bill became an Act, the central government on different occasions, said that after this NPR and NRC will come. NPR was done earlier also, but the questions asked in it were usual. BJP is presenting the NPR in a wrong way as it is presenting it in the name of Hindu and Muslim.
He also added that the Bhartiya Janta Party-led central government is dragging people into all these things as they did not fulfil any of their promises.
