Telangana Assembly to pass resolution against CAA-NPR-NRC

Hyderabad: Telangana State Legislative Assembly will pass a resolution against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) during the ongoing Budget session. A decision in this regard was taken at the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting chaired by State Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Friday.

“Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao himself said at the BAC meeting that the government will take up the issue for discussion and get the resolution passed. This was then seconded by the AIMIM and the Congress,” State Legislative Affairs Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy said speaking to



media after the meeting.

He said the Chief Minister declared that the government was keen on initiating the discussion against CAA-NPR-NRC in the Assembly followed by a meaningful and detailed discussion on the repercussions of the Act. “The government will then pass a resolution demanding the scrapping of CAA and also denouncing the proposed NPR and NRC,” he said.

With this, Telangana State will be joining the league of non-BJP State governments that are opposed to CAA and disinclined to implement NPR in its present format. The Chief Minister has already made it clear that the CAA is “discriminatory” and that the Telangana government will oppose it.