‘Tamil Nadu Muslims will not be affected by NPR’

MADURAI: No Muslim born in Tamil Nadu will be affected by the NPR (national population register) exercise in Tamil Nadu as the AIADMK government will continue to protect the rights and interests of Muslims like a fortress, said Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
The chief minister spoke this at two different events to lay the foundation stones for the government medical college in Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar on Sunday. He urged the women from the Muslim community to give up their protest and extend their support to the Tamil Nadu government. “People could omit the three recent questions added to NPR, including details on the place of birth of their mother and father,” he said.
“Tamil Nadu is a garden of peace where people of all creeds and castes lived in harmony. The government functioned on the basis of secularism and continued to protect the minority sections. I stated the same in the Assembly, but in recent times some, who could not tolerate it, were spreading rumours with malicious intent for political gains,” he said.
He assured the members of minority sections that they had no cause to fear through this function. “The people of Tamil Nadu should remain united and without paying heed to false information spread by divisive forces,” he said.
The chief minister also narrated the story of two goats who had realised in time that a cunning fox was trying to create a divide between them so that he could kill and eat them.