Forget CAA-NRC, Focus on Unemployment & Price-Hike: Tripura Congress to Centre

Agartala, January 24, 2020:

AICC national secretary and Youth Congress in-charge Krishna Allavaru on Friday urged the state and the central government to focus on the "real issues" like unemployment and price hike instead of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC)

“We want the respective governments to focus on the real issues -- unemployment, price rise, corruption and poverty” he said on the sidelines of a rally organized by the state unit of the Youth Congress in Agartala city.

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Thousands of people from different age groups participated in the rally. Participation of women and minority community in the rally organized to protest against the CAA and increasing unemployment is also worth mentioning.

The national leader, terming the NRC and NPR as 'ridiculous', said that these things had been pressed into the national consciousness to divert attention away from growing problems related to the economy.

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"We don’t want issues like NRC and NPR to be given too much attention despite the prevalence of many other issues that need to be addressed immediately. The centre should focus on the issues directly connected to the people. In Tripura, about 30 percent of the total population is jobless, but the government is talking about Pan Ki Dukan and Pakoda economics", he alleged. "What is more important is to make national registrar for the unemployed so that further plans could be chalked out to resolve the issue".

The rally was also loaded with anti CAA slogans, with people holding placards against the contentious act and the NRC.

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