Hyderabad: Asaduddin Owaisi, President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Hyderabad MP to lead the protest meeting against Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, National Register of Citizens (NRC), National Population Register (NPR). The protest meeting is scheduled to be held in Nizamabad today.
BJP MP’s reaction
Reacting on the proposed meeting, Nizamabad BJP MP, D Arvind has written a letter to the police commissioner requesting him to deny permission to the meeting. He further threatened that if permission is granted to anti-CAA protest, he will demonstrate in favour of CAA, NRC and NPR.
Owaisi met KCR
It may be mentioned that earlier, a delegation of Muslim leaders led by Asaduddin Owaisi had called on Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, urging him not to allow NPR work in the state.
The delegation appealed to KCR to stay the NPR work like Kerala and West Bengal. It said that NPR is the first step towards NRC.