Bid to raise CAA, NPR, NRC issues being scuttled in Parliament: Cong

The Congress hit out at the government over the CAA, NPR and NRC on Monday, alleging that the issues were not being allowed to be debated in Parliament and its efforts in this regard were being scuttled in an "undemocratic" manner.

Senior Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma also trained his guns on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for making statements, which he alleged were inciting people to indulge in violence, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise for it.

"Ministers have made statements which are provocative, incendiary and abusive. Yesterday in Delhi, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh made statements which are unacceptable...talking of shooting people, about sending people to parlok (getting people killed)," he said and demanded an apology from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the prime minister for it.

Sharma said never before did chief ministers make such remarks in the history of the country.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said almost all the opposition parties, including the DMK, CPI, CPI(M), NCP, RJD, TMC, SP and BSP, gave notices under Rule 267 to adjourn all business and discuss the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

"For the last two months, the whole country is on the road since the citizenship bill became an act. The NPR was done earlier, but the questions were simple. But in this NPR under this government, other details such as the date of birth of the father have been asked for," he said.

"The government represents it as a Hindu-Muslim issue. All of us feel that there is no Hindu-Muslim issue," the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister added.

The government was doing all this to deliberately divert the attention from its failure to deliver on its promises, he said, adding, "They keep us giving toys to keep us busy."
Asked about the Chair disallowing the adjournment notices, Sharma said, "With due respect, the Chair cannot tell the Opposition how to speak and when to speak. When a notice has been given under the rules, it is our right. We know under what rule which matter should be raised."