The Nagarika Sammukhya on Monday demanded that the Union Government withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Natiional Population Register (NPR) and the National Register for Citizenship (NRC)at the earliest.
The Sammukhya termed the CAA, the NPR and the NRC as anti-Constitutional and made this demand at a meeting held under the chairmanship its convenor Bhagaban Sahoo at Aska in Ganjam district on Wednesday. Communist leader Bishnu Das, Swasthya Andolan leader Abani Gaya, farmer leaders Shankar Sahu abd Pratap Nayak, Labour leader Pratap Pradhan, Jana Jagaran Abhiyan convenor Madhusudan, lawyer Simanchal Sethi, women leader P Parbati and youth leaders like Kartika and Alli Ahmad attended the meeting and held discussion on the issues. A resolution criticising the arrest of CPI(M-L) leader in Madhya Pradesh during a protest meeting was passed at the meeting. The Sammukhya decided to oppose the NPR survey, which would begin in the country on April 1. It also demanded that the State Government pass a resolution in the Odisha Assembly not to implement the CAA, NRC and NPR in the State.
Besides, it was decided that the Sammukhya would hold a public meeting at Kabisuryanagar on March 5 (Thursday)
