Ensure basic necessities before implementing NRC in K'taka: Cong leader to state govt

Bengaluru: Congress leader CM Ibrahim sai that before implementing the National Register for Citizens (NRC) the government should ensure that the people have access to basic necessitates.

Addressing presspersons on Saturday Ibrahim said, “We do not care about the NRC. If Bangladeshi citizens are here, then they will be sent back from here. However, the government should first arrange for food and house for the people and then implement the NRC.”

“The NRC is only for gaining votes. We are neither for it nor against it,” he added.

Ibrahim’s comment came after Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday that the BJP government in the state is mulling introducing the National Register of Citizens (NRC).