RTI No Citizenship Record For CM Khattar

  • The Haryana govt does not have documents to prove the citizenship of CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya and other Cabinet ministers.
  • This was revealed by the Right to Information query.
  • Panipat-based activist PP Kapoor had filed an RTI in January seeking certificates of documents that would prove the citizenship of the CM, the governor, and other ministers.
  • Before the Haryana Assembly elections last year, Khattar had said that he would implement the NRC in his state along the lines of Assam to remove illegal immigrants. 
  • While speaking to media, he said that about 1,500 people who had come to India following religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan were living in Haryana.
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