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Senior BJP person V. Muraleedharan connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) questioned the ineligible validity of the Kerala Cabinet's determination to present a permanent, photo-embedded nativity card, alleging that the determination was unnecessary and "politically motivated".
Reacting to the in-principle support fixed by the Cabinet connected Wednesday (December 24), the erstwhile Union Minister said the authorization to find citizenship rests with the cardinal authorities and asked wherefore the State needed to present different individuality papers erstwhile Aadhaar already contains broad idiosyncratic details.
"There is simply a enigma down this nativity card," the BJP person said, adding that the determination raised superior ineligible and law questions.
He alleged that the determination was aimed astatine wasting nationalist wealth and accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his colleagues of eyeing election-related backing done the project.
Mr. Muraleedharan said the Left authorities had a past of making announcements that placed a load connected the nationalist exchequer without offering immoderate existent payment to mean people.
He urged the authorities to retreat decisions that led to the misuse of taxpayers' money.
Referring to the now-stalled SilverLine obstruction project, helium said the authorities was presently engaged successful removing the yellowish bound markers that had earlier been installed, again astatine nationalist expense.
"This intelligibly shows however poorly thought-out decisions are being taken," helium said.
The disapproval came a time aft Chief Minister Vijayan announced that the Cabinet had fixed in-principle support for replacing the existing nativity certificate with a permanent, photo-embedded nativity card.
Mr. Vijayan had said the existent strategy forced radical to repeatedly get certificates for antithetic purposes and lacked statutory ineligible backing.
The Chief Minister said the caller paper would assistance radical easy beryllium their birth, residence oregon imperishable presumption successful Kerala and forestall exclusion.
He added that the Revenue Department had been asked to hole a draught law, successful consultation with the Law Department, to springiness the paper ineligible validity.
The BJP, however, has mounted a beardown onslaught connected the proposal.
Party State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said the determination would beryllium legally challenged, calling it an illustration of "dangerous separatist politics" and alleging that it was meant to divert attraction from the ruling front's caller electoral setbacks.
