"Not Just Muslims, Citizenship Act And NRC Will Affect All Of India," Says Kanhaiya Kumar | Read

Student leader-turned-politician Kanhaiya Kumar has accused the centre of launching a two-pronged attack on the country through the amended Citizenship Act and the impending National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise, saying that it will put every poor citizen who does not have his documentation in place at risk of being sent to detention centres. "The government says that the two initiatives will not affect the country's Muslim citizens. On the contrary, it will affect Muslims as well as every poor citizen who does not have the documents they will demand when the NRC exercise is launched. This will affect all of India," the Communist Party of India (CPI) leader told NDTV in an interview, adding that the amended Citizenship Act and the NRC should be viewed together to get a complete picture of the threat they pose to the country.