[Marxistindia] Detach Census operations from the NPR

[news from the cpi(m)]

March 4, 2020
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Detach Census Operations from the NPR
 
Given the opposition by several state Chief Ministers over the National
Population Register enumeration process, it is necessary to separate the
collection of data for the Census operation from the announced NPR
enumeration.
 
The Census operations are constitutionally mandated to be conducted every
decade, while the NPR figures in the Rules framed under the Citizenship
Amendment Act of 2003.  Hence, legally they should not be clubbed together.

 
The CPI(M) reiterates its understanding that the NPR data will be
automatically used for preparing the National Register of Citizens.  Crores
of people, whose names may not figure in the NRC, will be then subjected to
undue harassment and victimization to prove that they are Indian citizens by
furnishing documents.  A pilot study conducted earlier has shown that only
43 per cent of Indian citizens had any documentary proof.
 
The CPI(M) reiterates its opposition to the NPR given this reality.
 
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