Further, the intervening UPA-1 (2004-2009) and UPA-2 (2009-2014) governments are also complicit, because Citizenship Rules 2009 (CR2009, hereinafter) was enacted 05.02.2009. The NDA-1 government notified “Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003” (CR2003, hereinafter). A few days thereafter, HM Amit Shah declared that there was no link between NRC and NPR. He stated: “The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of Usual Residents. S.G.Vombatkere; “Questioning The 2003 Citizenship Rules: The Villain of NPR-NRC”; <https://countercurrents.org/2020/03/questioning-the-2003-citizenship-rules-the-villain-of-npr-nrc>; Countercurrents.org; March 9, 2020.
