Attacking the government over the issue of the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said these exercises will be more disastrous than demonetisation.

The basic idea of these exercises is to ask all poor people whether they are Indian or not, he said on the sidelines of the flag-hoisting ceremony at the AICC headquarters on the 135th foundation day of the party.

“His (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) 15 friends will not have to show any document and the money generated will go into the pockets of those 15 people,” he said. Rahul has previously accused the government of working for select few “crony capitalists”.

“You would have seen my tweet. You would have seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in which he is saying there are no detention centres in India and you would have seen the video of the detention centre. You can decide who is lying,” he said.

Taking to Twitter, he had also attached a video clip in which Modi accused the Congress, its allies and “urban-Naxals” of spreading the rumour that Muslims will be sent to detention centres.

The clip shows a purported detention centre being constructed in Assam.