Former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav opposes NPR
Lucknow/UNI: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and national president of Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav here on Tuesday said that National Population Register and National Register of Citizenship are two sides of the same coin and every citizen of this country was against them.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that BJP Governments – both at the centre and the state – failed to solve the basic issue and now again has come out with an emotive appeal.
"All Indians are against CAA. The move has been initiated to divert the attention of people from core issues," Yadav said.
His statement came in a day Union Cabinet approved the decision to go for NPR in the country.
“The country has witnessed violence across the country in which 19 deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh only. Police claims that no one died of police firing. If it is true why the government has so far not come out with post-mortem report?” Yadav asked.
The former Chief Minister also questioned the claim of State government that outsiders are behind the violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the state.
“If that is true, the government should explain how these outsiders came to UP. Why the police did not take action against them then,” he said while talking to reporters in Unnao.
Yadav had gone to Unnao with senior party leaders to handover a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to the family of a rape survivor who died on Saturday.
"The report from Bengal says that it is not people from Malda but BJP leaders and RSS volunteers are involved in arson violence,” SP president said.
Earlier Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma had talked about role of "outsiders" in the violence. He had said that people associated with the Popular Front of India (PFI), and who hail from Malda were behind the violence.
When asked about the unveiling of statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a programme in Lok Bhawan in Lucknow on Wednesday, Akhilesh said, "Our CM (Yogi Adityanath) has done no work. BJP is showing SP's work to the PM. We are happy PM is coming to see work of Samajwadis."
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