No NRC in Cong states, Prashant Kishor to Rahul

December 24, 2019 10:26

Janata Dal (United) leader and political strategist Prashant Kishor has thanked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for joining the citizens' movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

He, however, urged the senior Congress leader to communicate with senior members in the party and openly declare that there will be no NRC implementation in Congress-ruled states.

"Thanks, Rahul Gandhi for joining citizens' movement against CAA and NRC. But as you know beyond public protests we also need states to say no to NRC to stop it. We hope you will impress upon the Congress to OFFICIALLY announce that there will be No NRC in the Congress-ruled states," Prashant Kishor tweeted on Tuesday.

Kishor, who has been vocal against both CAA and NRC, has even shared a few ways in which implementation of NRC can be stopped. One of the ways suggested by him was to ensure that all non-BJP states should say no to NRC.

The JD(U) leader's statement comes a day after top Congress leadership, led by interim party president Sonia Gandhi, sat on a Satyagraha for Unity at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat in New Delhi on Monday.

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