National Population Register will serve as database for NRC, says Arundhati Roy

New Delhi: While addressing a gathering of protestors at Delhi University, writer-activist Arundhati Roy and winner of Booker Prize for her novel God of Small Things stood in solidarity with those protesting and said that National Population Register will serve as a database for the National Register of Citizens. She asked people to oppose it.

"Whenever officials come to collect the information you can give wrong names like Ranga-Billa, Kungfu-Kuttla. Also, give the wrong address like Race Course Road," she said.

Roy had earlier expressed her opposition to NRC and CAA. In a statement issued through the Twitter handle of Haymarket Books, she said, "Three years ago, we stood in line obediently outside banks as demonetization was imposed on us, a policy that broke the back of our country's economy. Now the National Register of Citizens coupled with the Citizenship Amendment Bill is set to break the back of our Constitution and cut the ground from under our feet. Are we going to stand in line once again, obediently, and comply with this policy that eerily resembles the 1935 Nuremberg Laws of the Third Reich?"

She urged citizens of this country to Stand up.

Yesterday, the Union Cabinet had given the go-ahead for updating of the National Population Register. A sum of Rs 8,500 crore has been allocated for the purpose. The exercise will begin in April 2020.

It becomes mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR. A usual resident is anyone who has resided in a local area for the past 6 months or more. It could also be a person who intends to reside in that area for the next 6 months or more.

NRC is expected to be a countrywide exercise. NRC is an exercise to ensure who are the legitimate citizens of the country.

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