Bengaluru, Oct 20: The Karnataka government has put the Assam-like National Register of Citizens (NRC) proposal on the backburner and decided to narrow down its exercise to creating a database of immigrants without documents and foreign nationals overstaying their visa.
The dilution in the exercise move comes a fortnight after Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai announced the NRC would soon be introduced in the state. He had said this was part of the Centre’s plan to extend the NRC across the country to identify and weed out illegal immigrants.
The change in stance is also partly due to practical difficulties in preparing and maintaining a registry of that magnitude.
Basavaraj Bommai said, “We’ll not introduce an Assam-like NRC.
However, we are considering compiling details of citizens that must help the government in tracking down illegal and overstaying foreign nationals.”
Labhu Ram, an officer with the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office, said about 800 foreign nationals have been overstaying in Karnataka.
Bengaluru, Feb 14: After the swearing-in of ten former JDS and Congress MLAs, political boundaries seem to have become more fluid, with little clarity on who is on whose side. When Honnali BJP MLA Renukacharya visited senior Congressman DK Shivakumar at the latter’s residence, many eyebrows were raised over the reason behind the meeting. There was speculation over why Renukacharya would be meeting a man who is, in all likelihood, slated to be the next KPCC president.
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