Manipur protesters seek NRC before census

Guwahati: At least six persons were injured after police dispersed a crowd in Imphal in Manipur on Wednesday, demanding the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) before the census was conducted.

Student activists locked up a government training institute as they felt preparations for the upcoming census was being carried out there. An organisation called Just Fair Delimitation (JFD) organised the protest.

Naorem Malemba, assistant organisation secretary of JFD, said the protest is to oppose the ongoing preparations for the census and delimitation process. "We demand deferment of the ongoing census process until the identification of illegal immigrants is completed with reference to the 1951 census. If the census is conducted, it will pose challenges to our societal balance. So, before conducting the census, we demand updation of NRC and the census later." Several women vendors from the Ima Market joined the demonstration.