BJP: OWAISI, KCR CAN SEEK REFUGE IN PAK

New Delhi: Attacking Telangana government for adopting a resolution in the state assembly against the CAA, the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens, BJP state unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said if chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM do not want to register for the NPR due to political reasons, they can "seek refuge in Pakistan". Sanjay Kumar, who was leading a BJP delegation that protested here against the Telangana government, also claimed that the Telangana government had earlier carried out an exercise similar to the NPR. “If he and his ally Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ulMuslimeen) do not want to register for the NPR due to political reasons, they can “seek refuge in Pakistan,” he asserted. The Telangana assemble on Monday adopted a resolution, moved by Rao, against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the NPR and the NRC and urged the Centre to amend CAA “in order to remove all references to any religion, or to any foreign country” given apprehensions among a large section of people in India. The resolution also alleged that there have been “concerted attempts” to tinker with the inclusive and non-religious nature of Indian citizenship through the CAA, NPR and NRC. BJP leader Bala Subrahmanyam Kamarsu, who is also its parliamentary party secretary, said Rao had exhibited his "ignorance" of the Constitution by pushing the resolution since the citizenship issue is the sole prerogative of the Centre.