National Population Register will serve as database for NRC, oppose it : Arundhati Roy

New Delhi, 26 Dec 2019 [Fik/News Sources]: The award winning author-activist Arundhati  Roy  has urged Indians to “lie” in Census over National Population Register or give “fake names”. On Wednesday .

The Booker Prize winner and  author of best-selling  book  ‘God of Small Things’  was speaking at an event organised here to protest against CAA-NCR-NPR, she urged people to give false information to the government and sabotage its attempt at maintaining a National Population Register.

“What is NPR? It has happened before. They (government officials) will come to your homes. They have started coming. They won’t ask any questions, they won’t ask for documents… But from NPR, the data base of NRC will be prepared,” said Roy, during a discussion outside Arts Faculty at Delhi University’s north campus.

Urging people to fight the government, she said: “We have to fight them for the four years. But, we should not give them four years; we must have a plan. When they come to your house, give them some other name like ‘Ranga Billa, Kung-Fu Kutta’. Give your address as ‘7 Race Course Road’. Let’s fix one phone number. A lot of subversion will be needed. We were not born to face lathis and bullets.”

“If Adivasis and Dalits speak up, they are called tukde-tukde. If students speak up, they’re called urban naxals. If Muslims do, they are labelled as terrorists,” she said.“In this era, we will all have to save each other,” she added.

As PM Narendra Modi dismissed the existence of any detention camps and appealed to the youth to not fall prey to such rumours trying to divide the country, Roy said: “How could he so easily lie about the detention camps even though he knew he would be caught? It is because godi (friendly) media is with him. You should feel shame. You are telling people to stop spreading rumours. Check your own social media!”