According to sources kerala chief minister pinarayi vijayan on thursday assured the state assembly that the National population Register will not be implemented, but the state will go ahead with the census process. Meanwhile as the Congress-led opposition UDF and the treasury benches sparred over the NPR, Vijayan said the state cannot cancel the Centre's notification asking officials to start the enumeration process. But we can stay it. We have stayed the NPR process. Since the opposition leader is insisting, the government will look into it.

 

We stand by the decision that census will go on. We will not implement NPR. The questionnaire for that is different," the chief minister told the House. The government had in december itself ordered stoppage of all activities in connection with NPR in the state considering 'apprehensions' of the public that it would lead to NRC in the wake of the citizenship amendment act (CAA). indian Union Muslim League (IUML) mla K M Shaji said NPR and the census require similar data and it was a huge mistake to say that only the census activities will take place. "The state government has claimed that it has decided to avoid two questions from the census data questionnaire. But the centre itself has said they don't require answers to those questions.

 

Moreover the census officials have been appointed and now they will directly report to the centre and not the state government". Apparently district collectors were also asked to personally ensure this as the government had in december last year stayed all matters relating to NPR in the state, which were to be conducted along with the first phase of census operations.

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