Requested to touch upon Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s latest assertion on implementation of uniform civil code within the BJP-ruled states, Kumar, whose JD(U) is part of the NDA, mentioned, “He (Shah) is speaking about citizenship to minority migrants from three neighbouring nations. He mentioned that this train will begin as soon as the pandemic ends.
“It’s the dwelling ministry’s topic. What can I say on this?” he mentioned.
Kumar mentioned so far as the NPR train is worried, “We had already made it clear that ‘it ought to be carried out as per the 2010 format”.
The brand new NPR type has further questions just like the date and fatherland of oldsters and final residential tackle of the applicant that had triggered controversy and several other opposition events have protested in opposition to it.
Apart from Bihar, governments of states like Kerala, West Bengal and Punjab have already objected to the implementation of Nationwide Inhabitants Register 2020, saying it’s a harbinger for a nationwide Nationwide Register of Residents.
Kumar dismissed speculations of a doable reshuffle in Bihar cupboard and mentioned they don’t have any foundation. “There might be no reshuffle in any respect,” the chief minister mentioned to queries by scribes on his assembly with Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan final week.
“Pradhan is my outdated buddy. Earlier, he was a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar. I met him since he was in Patna. There’s nothing to invest in any respect,” he mentioned.
Sources in JD(U) mentioned that the 2 leaders had mentioned presidential and vice-presidential elections amongst different issues.
Responding to a query on Bihar’s plan to conduct cast-based census within the state after the Centre’s refusal to carry census of castes aside from SCs and STs, Kumar iterated “We’ll quickly convene an all get together assembly on the difficulty”.
