BJP, Cong in blame game over National Population Register & detention camps

The BJP said the Congress-led UPA initiated the NPR in 2010, along with the Census 2011 exercise, and that it had also approved construction of detention centres

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Thursday got into a blame game over the antecedents of the National Population Register (NPR) and the detention camps that have come up for illegal immigrants in Assam and elsewhere, even as protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) continued in several parts of the country.

At a public event in Delhi, which is scheduled to go for polls early next year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress and other opposition parties of creating confusion over the CAA. He said it was time to defeat the “tukde