KOLKATA, INDIA - JANUARY 18: Former Union Minister and Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram during a leadership training camp on CAA-NPR-NRC at Pradesh Congress office, on January 18, 2020 in Kolkata, India. Chidambaram said that after the "Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens) fiasco", the Narendra Modi government has quickly "changed gears" and is now talking of NPR. He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had failed to gauge the strength of the opposition and thought it as a 'passing cloud'. (Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times )