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Centre suspends Manipur census over NRC demand
The Story in Brief
The Centre has suspended the entire Census 2027 exercise in Manipur after Meitei and Naga civil society organisations demanded a National Register of Citizens be prepared first. The Registrar General of India notified the next phase schedule on Friday, 30 October, listing Manipur among states and Union territories excluded 'till further declaration', alongside Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Ladakh and parts of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The house-listing phase had already been kept in abeyance since September after the Manipur high court directed a stay on 5 September. The Union home minister, Amit Shah, met Manipur chief minister Y Khemchand Singh in New Delhi the same day. The Manipur Legislative Assembly had adopted a resolution in 2022 seeking an NRC before the census and reaffirmed it in 2024.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Both Times of India and Urban Acres provide near-identical factual reporting on the census suspension, the RGI notification, the September high court order and the legislative resolutions. The coverage is uniform straight reporting, with no discernible slant in either account. The core question left open by both sources is when the RGI will make a further declaration on Manipur's inclusion, given that the schedule for other states runs from January to March 2027. No new date has been announced.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report), urbanacres.in (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
