Won’t allow NRC in state: Maharashtra CM Thackeray

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena, which has so far taken an ambiguous stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), said the party was not opposed to the new law but was against the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Sena supremo and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said his government would not implement NRC in the state.

“Due to the CAA no one’s citizenship is going to be taken away in the country… However we will not allow NRC to be implemented in the state. If NRC is implemented, then not just Muslims but also Hindus would find it difficult to prove their nationality in the country and so we will not allow this to happen,” he said in an interview given to Sanjay Raut, a Sena Rajya Sabha MP and the editor of the party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana.’ The newspaper is scheduled to carry the interview in three parts starting Monday.

However, it has begun releasing clips of the interview. Sena has been taking different stands on CAA. It had voted in favour if the legislation in the Lok Sabha but abstained from voting in the Rajya Sabha. It then said it “needs clarifications” from the government on CAA and hence would neither vote in favour or against the bill in the Upper House.


In Maharashtra, Congress as well as Sena’s other ally, NCP, have publicly opposed CAA and said the law would not be implemented in the state.