‘Biggest liar of 2019’: Prakash Javadekar slams Rahul Gandhi over NPR remark

Hours after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi dubbed the National Population Register (NPR) a tax on the poor, the BJP hit back by calling him the “biggest liar of 2019” for comments that it said have “embarrassed” people and his party. Launching a broadside at the Congress leader was Union minister Prakash Javadekar who claimed that the people are with the government on the new citizenship law and NPR. The NPR does not involve any monetary transaction and its data is used to identify the poor so that government welfare schemes could reach the targeted people, he said.