PRIME Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that there had been no discussion on a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC) is not correct, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said. Talking to the media in Hyderabad on December 28, Yechury said, “In 2014, answering to my question, the home minister said that NPR (National Population Register) will be started and on the basis of which the process of NRC will begin in all the states. Since then the announcement of NRC made for eight times. This is on record. The PM is deliberately saying that there was no discussion on NRC.” He was addressing the media along with CPI(M) Telangana state secretary T Veerabhadram and state secretariat member D G Narasimha Rao.
Yechury drew parallel between opposition to the Emergency and today’s agitations and said both these movements brought a large number of people on to the streets. Now the agitation is going on for the protection of the Constitution and saving the secular and democratic system.  It is significant that agitation is going on in educational   institutions and universities. He criticized the death of protesters in police firing in Uttar Pradesh. In Jamia Millia Islamia, the police burnt the library. All agitations are happening peacefully and expression of dissent is a right provided in the Constitution.  It is the Modi government that is destroying Indian democracy, secularism and democratic state. 
He reminded that in 2003 during the time when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was PM and Advani was home minister, they had announced that NPR will be implemented. Six questions are now added to the previous 15 and a total of 21 questions are going to be asked in NPR. On the basis of which, who is genuine and who is doubtful will be written. 
Yechury attended a seminar organised by students’ union, PhD scholars of Osmania University and Hyderabad Central University.  On the evening of December 27, he addressed a public meeting in the old city. He said that so far 28 people died in the countrywide anti-CAA and NRC agitations. He reminded that out of arrested people in Banaras Hindu University only 39 are Muslims and the rest Hindus. This shows that the binary being created by the government that it is only a movement led by Muslims is not true. He appealed that students, intellectuals and all sections of people to come forward unitedly to dislodge the Modi government. The Modi government do not bother about the falling of life standards in the country, the growing burden on the people, fall of GDP, increased unemployment that is highest in the last 50 years.  The never-ending farmer suicides and rise in onion prices are not the issues to the government.  
He reminded that in 1939, V D Savarkar brought religion-based two-nation theory. M A Jinnah also subscribed to the same ideas. Consequently, Pakistan was separated as an Islamic state.  The RSS brought the argument that India should be declared a Hindu state. Mahatma Gandhi was murdered as he opposed it. RSS got alienated from the people. But now the RSS is controlling the government and they want to implement their nefarious ideology in the country. The people should reject the RSS conspiracy of a Hindu Rashtra. Already 13 states have announced that they will not implement NRC and CPI(M) welcomes this.  This seminar was presided over by Nageswar Rao from Osmania University.  
CONVENTION AGAINST CAA-NRC
In the name of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and NRC, PM Modi is becoming destroyer of the Constitution, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B V Raghavulu said in a convention. Because of BJP policies, the country is facing topsy-turvy situation. The convention was organized by Bhuvanagiri district party against CAA and NRC. He said the Constitution made it amply clear that citizenship should not be given on the basis of caste or religion. Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are giving contradictory statements. They are trying to create communal conflicts in the country. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat saying that all 130 crore people in India are Hindus is a joke. His comments are giving the meaning that they should change to Hindus or should remain suppressed or should leave the country.
Left parties conducted statewide rallies and dharnas on December 19 against CAA and NRC. In all districts, effigies of the central government were burnt. A large number of activities were held in several places in Hyderabad and all over the state.  The Left parties, TJS and mass organisations conducted protests near the Exhibition Ground in Hyderabad.