NPR will be implemented in Tamil Nadu like in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, says CM Edappadi K Palaniswami

MADURAI: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has clarified that people can omit three questions that have been recently included in the NPR exercise as the details in Tamil Nadu would be collected on the same lines as done in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
He said that residents were free to omit the three newly added questions in the NPR form - language, place of birth of mother and father and details of Aadhaar and ration cards. “They need not submit any records,” he said. He added that the Centre has not said anything about NRC.
Speaking to reporters at Madurai airport, the chief minister said that NPR was implemented during BJP’s rule in 2003, when DMK was its ally then. On being asked about MNM (Makkal Needhi Maiyam) president Kamal Haasan’s statement that the government departments were not functioning well, he asked what Kamal knows about government departments. “The only department he knows is acting and he is not even a full-time politician,” he said, adding that if malpractice in any department is brought to light stringent action would be taken.
When asked about some political parties projecting as a farmer, he said that his primary source of income came from agriculture. “Otherwise, the only salary I have taken till date is of an MLA when I was an MLA, MLA pension when I was not MLA, apart from MP salary and pension,” he said. On being asked about the IT secretary’s decision to quit over the scheme to provide internet facility to over 12,000 villages in TN, he said that the secretary was still in office and that it was false propaganda by the opposition parties.