Arundhati Roy speaking at a protest in New Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act has sparked a new controversy by asking people to give false information about their names and addresses to officials when they come to collect data for the National Population Register (NPR).
Crux of the Matter
Saying that NRC is targeting the Muslims of India Arundhati Roy said, “When officials visit your home for NPR and ask you your name, give them names like Ranga-Billa, Kungfu-Katta.”
She also added by saying, “The NPR will become the database for NRC. We need to fight against it and have a plan.”
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party both have strongly opposed Arundhati Roy over her remarks of providing false information and NPR being the database for NRC.
Supreme Court lawyer Rajeev Kumar Ranjan filed a complaint against activist Arundhati Roy on December 26 in New Delhi claiming that she was asking people to give wrong information to government officers for the NPR.
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She has contributed to We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, a book released in 2009, that explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying their diversity and the threats to their existence. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organisation Survival International. She has written numerous essays on contemporary politics and culture. They have been collected by Penguin India in a five-volume set. More Info
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