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'Didn’t ask anything wrong': Kerala man after filing RTI query on PM’s citizenship documents

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/21/2020 11:00:55 AM

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 20 As protests against the controversial citizenship law continue to rock the country, a man who filed a Right to Information (RTI) query seeking documents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s citizenship has been at the receiving end of both bouquets and brickbats. Joshy Kalluveettil, hailing from Thrissur district in Kerala, has filed an RTI application on January 13 for clarification on the documents for the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, which was passed by the Parliament in December last year. Speaking to Outlook, Kalluveettil says that his intention was to clear the air on the law and to seek clarity on the necessary documents to prove one’s citizenship in the wake of the ongoing protests against it. “The central government had said that Aadhaar, driving license, ration card, PAN card or passport could not be used to prove one’s citizenship. I thought, if we can access the information on PM’s documents, it will allay the fears of the public on documents. The people of India too could use the same documents,” he says.