Citizenship Amendment Act protests Updates: After the union cabinet approved Rs 3,941.35 crore for updating the NPR on Tuesday, the Trinamool Congress said that BJP is trying to 'fool and cheat' the people of the country as the population register is the 'first step towards NRC'.

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The services were snapped in several cities in view of violent protests against the newly amended Citizenship Act last week.

The internet services in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh will remain suspended till 8 pm on 25 December, District Magistrate, Abhishek Prakash, said on Monday.

On 21 December, Rizvi tried to incite communal passion and the people against the new law through Facebook Live and Alvi too tried to incite people and trigger riots through social media.

According to reports, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s (youth wing) has called a Darjeeling bandh on 29 December, against National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act. The bandh has been called by Binoy Tamang faction of GJM and the group has said that everything will remain shut in the Darjeeling hills on that day.

Kamran Alvi, a journalist with a local news channel, and Dilkash Rizvi, the lawyer, had been sent to jail, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.

A journalist and a lawyer were arrested in Barabanki for allegedly inciting people through social media against the contentious law, police said on Monday.

"Protests are happening across all the states in the Northeast of India and have spread to the university campuses in the rest of the country. There have been deaths and injuries in the Northeast and the government has imposed an internet blackout effectively cutting them off from the rest of the world. Injuries have also been reported from Jamia Millia and AMU," the statement read.

In response to the implementation of the newly amended Citizenship Act, Dublin City University Faculty and Students issued a statement condemning the repression of protests against the law in the nation.

Her appeal to the Opposition parties came on a day when BJP working president JP Nadda addressed a rally in the city and accused the TMC of "misleading" masses over the contentious law.

Mamata wrote separate letters to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, among others, asserting the need for joint protests against the CAA and the proposed nationwide NRC.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is eyeing pan-India support in her fight against the Citizenship Amendment Act, wrote to chief ministers and senior leaders of Opposition parties on Monday, urging them to unite and chalk out a plan to "save the country".

Prashant Kishor, political strategist, takes on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Citizenship Act and National Register of Citizens on Tuesday and asked to declare no implementation of CAA or NRC in Congress ruled states.

Angry protesters demanding scrapping of the amended legislation had pelted police personnel with stones, torched several motorbikes and vandalised two police booths as well as three buses in Seelampur on Tuesday, leaving 21 people injured.

Five 'miscreants' have been arrested over violent demonstrations in North east Delhi’s Seelampur area had happened on 17 December in view of newly amended Citizenship Act.

She wrote separate letters to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, among others, asserting the need for joint protests against the CAA and the proposed nationwide NRC.

On Monday, Mamata, who is eyeing pan-India support in her fight against the Citizenship Amendment Act, wrote to chief ministers and senior leaders of Opposition parties on Monday, urging them to unite and chalk out a plan to "save the country".

A Delhi court on Monday dismissed the bail pleas of the 15 people and extended their judicial custody by two weeks. Violence broke out in Daryaganj on 20 December, when a group of agitating demonstrators, protesting against the amended Citizenship Act, resorted to stone pelting after police tried to forcefully evict them. One car was set on fire and several others were damaged.

Six of the 15 accused in the violence witnessed in Delhi's Daryaganj on 20 December filed bail applications before the Tis Hazari Sessions Court, ANI reported. The matter will be heard today.

Internet services restored in parts of Uttar Pradesh, according to CNN-News18. Earlier on Monday District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash had said that the services would remain suspended till 8 pm on 25 December

"The new law is against every citizen of this country because it is against the social fabric of India," Yadav said.

"The present law, the Citizenship Amendment Act, is based on religion that is why it is against the Constitution," he said.

Yadav said there was a law for citizenship in India earlier as well, but it was not based on religion.

Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav on Monday said the new citizenship law is based on religion which is against the Constitution. He was part of a discussion on the amended Citizenship Act and the NRC at the Faculty of Law in Delhi University.

"It is demanded that the Central Government should remove all the apprehensions, especially of the Muslims over the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC, and if they are fully satisfied, then it will be better," Mayawati tweeted in Hindi.

She said it would be better if Muslims are given satisfaction amid the tension and fear triggered in the community after the passage of Citizenshipship (Amendment) Bil, 2019.

BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday appealed the Centre to remove all apprehensions, especially of Muslims over the issue of Citizenship law and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The Mangaluru police released a video claiming the riots that broke out during the protest against Citizenship Act was "planned" and "executed". Currently the entire state of Karnataka is under Section 144 under BS Yediyurappa government.

Balyan was an accused in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riot, however, he claims that he he has been booked in a false case.

"He is seen as a polarising figure in Muzaffarnagar as he has from time-to-time made statements that are communal in nature. There was no reason for him to be there, when both the police and civil society members were trying to bring the situation under control," said a resident of Kalpara.

He invoked the bloody 2013 communal riots in the city and said that ‘some extremist elements’ are vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in a similar way. Although Saiduzzaman does not name anyone explicitly in his press note, a Firstpost reporter found that those present at the rally say that the presence of BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyan led to the further escalation of the stand-off.

While condemning the police action following protests on 20 December in Muzaffarnagar, Saiduzzaman wrote that Hindus and Muslims all across the country are standing united against the law. He lashed out at the state administration and the police for sealing shops of those not involved in the protest.

After Friday prayers on 20 December, protesters from across Muzaffarnagar had assembled at Meenakshi Chowk to mark their objection to the Citizenship Amendment Act. "It was a peaceful protest and the organisers were constantly in conversation with the authorities. At a little past 4 pm, people started dispersing after a few rounds of sloganeering. No one knew where the stones came from. That is when the situation went out of hand," says Asad Farooqui, a social worker from Muzaffarnagar. A few community leaders were roped in immediately by the police to figure out a way to de-escalate tensions, but they weren't successful.

Students living at Sadat Hostel in Muzaffarnagar were in for a rude shock when the police barged into their hostel premises late on Friday evening. Almost all the students staying at the hostel were arrested on alleged charges of rioting during the protest from earlier that day.

The Mangaluru police released a video claiming the riots that broke out during the protest against Citizenship Act was "planned" and "executed". Currently the entire state of Karnataka is under Section 144 under BS Yediyurappa government.

Section 144 has been imposed, banning gatherings of more than four people, at Mandi House in New Delhi ahead of a planned protest against newly amended Citizenship Act. Police teams have been deployed.

Special Additional Session Judge Satish Kumar sought response from the police and slated the matter for 28 December for further hearing.

The Tis Hazari court in Delhi on Tuesday issued a notice to the Delhi Police on a bail petition filed by six of the 15 accused who were arrested after a protest in the Darya Ganj area against the citizenship law turned violent on 20 December.

During the protests on Friday, protesters had torched vehicles and pelted stones at police, who used lathicharge and lobbed tear gas shells to quell the mobs.

The deceased have been identified as Mohsin, Aasif, Zahir, Aalim, all residents of Meerut, and Asif from Delhi, Inspector General Alok Singh said.

The toll in the violence that occurred during protests against the CAA in Meerut on Friday rose to five, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi to visit Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday to meet kin of those killed in anti-Citizenship Act protests, reported CNN-News18.

Last week, when nationwide agitation against CAA was at its peak, Jakob Lindenthal, a German student in the Department of Physics at IIT-M – part of a one-year exchange programme – was asked to leave the country immediately after he attended one of the protests against CAA and NRC.

"I call on Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (HRD Minister) to instruct IIT Madras to withdraw the expulsion and allow India to hold head high in the academic world," he added.

"This is dismaying. We used to be a proud democracy, an example to the world. No democracy punishes freedom of expression," Tharoor said.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has called upon the HRD Ministry to withdraw the expulsion of a German student pursuing his Masters at IIT Madras after he was asked to leave the country following his participation in an anti-Citizenship Act protest.

They further claimed that the action by the cops was necessitated to tackle the unruly mob. "Some outsiders also got incolved in the guise of students," according to the police.

The state police claimed that the protests were "politically motivated" and alleged that Congress and Samajwadi Party leaders instigated the crowd.

Following the unrest during the anti-CAA protests in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the flak received by the Uttar Pradesh Police, the administration has released CCTV footage from the violence on 15 December.

The leaders were on their way to visit the violence-hit state. The toll in violence that occurred during protests against the CAA in Meerut on Friday rose to five, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka, who were scheduled to meet the kin of those killed in anti-Citizenship Act protests in Meerut, were stopped by Uttar Pradesh Police, CNN-News18 reported.

According to the Congress, the Gandhis were stopped despite telling the Police that only three people – Priyanka, Rahul Gandhi and Pramod Tiwari – will be going inside Meerut, so that Section 144 is not violated. Speaking to News18 , Rahul said, "We were stopped from going ahead. I asked them (police personnel) if they have any order, but they failed to show any order."

The comment by Bose, grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, comes as BJP has launched massive public awareness campaign to raise awareness for the contentious citizenship law.

"If Muslims are not being persecuted in their home country they would not come,so there's no harm in including them. However, this is not entirely true- what about Baluch who live in Pakistan & Afghanistan? What about Ahwadiyya in Pakistan?" Bose said.

"If #CAA2019 is not related to any religion why are we stating – Hindu, Sikh, Buddha, Christians, Parsis and Jains only! Why not include #Muslims as well? Let's be transparent," Bose tweeted. "Don't equate India or compare it with any other nation – as it's a nation Open to all religions and communities," he said in another tweet.

Hours after BJP working president JP Nadda took out a march in Kolkata in support of the newly-enacted Citizenship law on Monday, the party's West Bengal vice president Chandra Kumar Bose raised his voice against the Act and said India is a country "open to all religions and communities".

"The database will have demographic as well as biometric details. A "usual resident", for the NPR, is a person who has lived in an area for at least six months or more, or a person who intends to live in an area for the next six months or more. It is mandatory for every "usual resident" of India to register in the NPR."

According to officials, the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved over Rs 8500 crore for updating National Population Register.

The Union Cabinet has approved the National Population Register, India Today reported quoting sources. According to NDTV , the Census Commission has said the objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every "usual resident" of the country.

The NPR exercise will be held between April and September 2020 in all states and Union Territories except Assam, where the National Register of Citizens exercise to identify illegal migrants has already been conducted.

The NPR data was first updated in 2015 with door-to-door surveys; digitisation of the updated data is complete now, officials said

The data for NPR was first collected in 2010 during the second term of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, reports have said, along with the house-listing phase of Census 2011.

According to reports, in the next step, the Centre has decided to update the NPR along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021 in 2020. West Bengal and Kerala have stopped the NPR exercise, over a week after the controversial bill to amend the Citizenship Act was passed by both Houses of parliament, NDTV reports.

Ahmed Raza Khan, a third year History Honours student of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University, Lucknow was expelled by the varsity's Vice Chancellor for calling students to protest against CAA and NRC, and for putting up a Facebook post related to the matter, according to Times of India .

"The NPR process has been started in many states and Rs 13,000 crore has been allocated for theNPR and census," Union minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said during a press briefing.

The NPR will will help in ensuring that the benefits of welfare schemes reach the intended beneficiaries, added Javadekar.

He added that the NPR exercise was first started in 2010 under the UPA government and was last updated in 2015. The NPR will have to be updated every 10 years. "Lakhs of enumerators will be going from house to house for the NPR", he said adding that from this year onwards, an app will be introduced to facilitate the process.

Seeking to allay fears, the government said, "It’s a national population register, not a citizen register." Javadekar also stated that no documents or biometrics will be required and that it will be based on self-certification.

"Cabinet has approved an expenditure of Rs 8,754.23 crore for the exercise of the Census of India 2021 and Rs 3,941.35 crore for the updation of National Population Register," said the minister.

Addressing a press briefing, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that the Union Cabinet has approved the conducting of census of India 2021 and updating of National Population Register. The exercise will be conducted between April and September 2020 and a head count will be ready by February 2021 (2021 is the Census year)," he said.

religious lines. In Assam, where the BJP is in power, detention centres have been built. In Bengal, we will never build any such centre."

Mamata Banerjee, who led a protest march against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) and proposed NRC -- from Swami Vivekananda statue at Bidhan Sarani to Gandhi Bhavan in the Kolkata, said, "As long as I am alive, I will not allow them to implement CAA or NRC in Bengal and divide the country on

Protesters raised slogans demanding the withdrawal of the NRC, CAA as well as the NPR, which was approved by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day.

Students and protesters from various universities and organisations gathered near Jantar Mantar under the banner of "We the People of India" to protest against the CAA and NRC.

A professor at the Ashoka University shared a link to a reply give by former minister os state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju in the Rajya Sabha in 2014, which stated: "The NPR is the first step towards creation of National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) by verifying the citizenship status of every usual residents."

Twitter users, including journalists and academicians, reacted to the government's claims that the National Population Register was not related to National Register of Citizens.

"NPR is not the Census. Census should continue, as it has always been done, every 10 years. Govt should focus on the economic crisis it has created: Soaring unemployment, rising rural distress & food prices. Repeal the divisive CAA. Cancel NRC-NPR," he said in another tweet.

"NPR=NRC. How much more will the Modi government lie and mislead the people? It was stated clearly on the record in the Rajya Sabha by this government that the National Population Register is the base document from where the NRC work will start," CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.

Hours after the Union Cabinet approved Rs 3,941.35 crore for updating the NPR, the CPM on Tuesday said that chief ministers who opposed the NRC should also stop the National Population Register process.

"There is no link between National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR)," said Home minister Amit Shah in an exclusive interview with ANI.

"Some parties opposing NPR to deny benefits to minorities. Minorities benefited only due to the schemes brought by Prime minister Narendra Modi," Shah told ANI.

Asked about police violence during the protests against the CAA, Shah said "If police do not protect lives, then they are not fulfilling their duty. they might have even entered ICU, but they must have been chasing miscreants."

"Detention centres are only for illegal immigrants. Neither the CAA nor the NPR will affect citizens of the country," claimed Shah. He stated "There is only one detention centre in Assam, which was built years ago. No detention centre has been built since the Modi government came to power."

"Once again the BJP govt is caught in a trap of their own making, " it tweeted.

Responding to the claims made by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar and Home Minister Amit Shah about there being no links between the NPR and the NRC, the Congress cited the 2018-19 annual report of the home ministry which stated that the NPR is the first step of the NRC. The party also said that the same reply was given by former MoS for home Kiren Rijiju in the Rajya Sabha.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has tweeted a video seeking to present its side of the events that took place during the protests at Aligarh Muslim University.

Reacting to the Cabinet's approval to the process of updating the National Population Register, activist Prashant Bhushan said, "The NPR is explicitly the basis of the National Register of Indian Citizens under the Citizenship Rules of 2003. Just 2 days ago Modi shouted that there is no move for a National Register of Citizens & today his Cabinet clears the NPR which is the basis for NRC! Liars & Frauds!"

The Rajya Sabha MP said the said BJP is cheating the people as NPR will be carried out alongside the census. This will confuse the innocent people who will think it is the census and not the first step of the NRC.

Claiming that Narendra Modi led govt had sought to link the NPR exercise with the NRC not only in Rajya Sabha, but also in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien on Tuesday shared a reply give by MoS State in the lower House in 2015. The reply states that the information collected through the NPR wil serve as the "mother database" for the NRIC by verifying the citizenship status of each and every resident.

Soren, who led the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress-RJD alliance to a win in the assembly polls, also said that he had not gone through the details of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the possible NRC and he would make a "holistic review" of them. "I have not gone through the NRC and CAB (now CAA) documents that the government of India wants to implement. Citizens are on the roads against these laws. We will go through it and if it uproots even one Jharkhandi from his or her home, then it won't be implemented," 44-year-old Soren told PTI in an interview.

Jharkhand chief minister-designate Hemant Soren on Tuesday said he will go through the details of the citizenship law and if even one person from his state is uprooted due to the amended legislation, then it will not be implemented.

ASU General Secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi demanded immediate withdrawal of the Act and warned the government not to suppress peoples' movement. "We also demand immediate release of KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi. The way he was arrested is totally condemnable," he added. Akhil Gogoi, an RTI activist and peasant leader, was arrested on December 12 in Jorhat district as a preventive measure amid violent protests against the amended law.

Dibrugarh, the hometown of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, witnessed a amassive gathering. A large number of people assembled at Chowkidinghee playground at a programme by All Assam Students' Union (AASU), which is spearheading the protests. The town observed a total and spontaneous bandh to express solidarity and shops, banks and business establishments remained closed.

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act continued in Assam's Dibrugarh, where agitators demanded for the release of detained activist Akhil Gogoi.

However, home ministry officials said "at present there is no proposal to create the NRC in the country based on the NPR data".

The government on Tuesday approved nearly Rs 12,700 crore for carrying out the Census 2021 and updating the National Population Register (NPR), and made it clear that NPR has no relation with the contentious National Register of Citizens.

"When the government itself said in Rajya Sabha that NPR will be the basis of NRC, how many lies will BJP leaders speak and mislead people? Their hidden motives stand exposed," Akhilesh said in a tweet in Hindi.

Shortly after the Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a fund of Rs 3,941.35 crore to update the National Population Register, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday attacked the BJP government, saying its "hidden motives" to have a National Register of Citizens has been exposed.

ANI has reported that a delegation of United Muslim Action Committee will meet the Telangana chief minister tomorrow. They will give a representation to him on CAA, NRC and NPR. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi will also be a part of the delegation.

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The Uttar Pradesh Police has tweeted a video seeking to present its side of the events that took place during the protests at Aligarh Muslim University.

The NPR is explicitly the basis of the National Register of Indian Citizens under the Citizenship Rules of 2003. Just 2 days ago Modi shouted that there is no move for a National Register of Citizens & today his Cabinet clears the NPR which is the basis for NRC! Liars & Frauds! https://t.co/LwF1yIX1AA

Reacting to the Cabinet's approval to the process of updating the National Population Register, activist Prashant Bhushan said, "The NPR is explicitly the basis of the National Register of Indian Citizens under the Citizenship Rules of 2003. Just 2 days ago Modi shouted that there is no move for a National Register of Citizens & today his Cabinet clears the NPR which is the basis for NRC! Liars & Frauds!"

"All investigators have been asked to ensure fair and evidence-based investigation," said Naithani.

It will decide whether an arrested person was a mere spectator and bystander or was part of the unlawful assembly or a miscreant, actively involved in rioting, arson and firing and damaging public property.

The committee will minutely scrutinise the role of those arrested in the recent protests and demonstrations against the amended citizenship law in Lucknow.

Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani said the committee will be headed by Lucknow's additional superintendent of police.

The Lucknow police has formed a committee of its senior officers to ensure fair probe into the criminal culpability of those arrested in the recent anti-CAA protests, an official said on Tuesday.

Dear students and all More BULLxxxxING Mo-Sh 😜 caught again! In an earlier tweet, we showed you proof from #RajyaSabha Now, more proof (below) from #LokSabha NRC-CAA-NPR linked by Mo-Sh 😜 in #Parliament #CAA_NRC_Protests pic.twitter.com/Axvr7nh5Y1

The Rajya Sabha MP said the said BJP is cheating the people as NPR will be carried out alongside the census. This will confuse the innocent people who will think it is the census and not the first step of the NRC.

Claiming that Narendra Modi led govt had sought to link the NPR exercise with the NRC not only in Rajya Sabha, but also in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien on Tuesday shared a reply give by MoS State in the lower House in 2015. The reply states that the information collected through the NPR wil serve as the "mother database" for the NRIC by verifying the citizenship status of each and every resident.

Soren, who led the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress-RJD alliance to a win in the assembly polls, also said that he had not gone through the details of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the possible NRC and he would make a "holistic review" of them. "I have not gone through the NRC and CAB (now CAA) documents that the government of India wants to implement. Citizens are on the roads against these laws. We will go through it and if it uproots even one Jharkhandi from his or her home, then it won't be implemented," 44-year-old Soren told PTI in an interview.

Jharkhand chief minister-designate Hemant Soren on Tuesday said he will go through the details of the citizenship law and if even one person from his state is uprooted due to the amended legislation, then it will not be implemented.

leaders said. Called 'Samvidhan Bachao Nyaya Shanti Yatra', it will start at noon from Rangmahal Talkies and culminate at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Minto Hall (old Vidhan Sabha), MP Congress vice president and organisation-in-charge Chandra Prabhash Shekhar said. He said Congress leaders and workers, representativesfrom other parties, NGOs, ex-Army men, advocates and students are expected to take part.

ASU General Secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi demanded immediate withdrawal of the Act and warned the government not to suppress peoples' movement. "We also demand immediate release of KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi. The way he was arrested is totally condemnable," he added. Akhil Gogoi, an RTI activist and peasant leader, was arrested on December 12 in Jorhat district as a preventive measure amid violent protests against the amended law.

Dibrugarh, the hometown of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, witnessed a amassive gathering. A large number of people assembled at Chowkidinghee playground at a programme by All Assam Students' Union (AASU), which is spearheading the protests. The town observed a total and spontaneous bandh to express solidarity and shops, banks and business establishments remained closed.

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act continued in Assam's Dibrugarh, where agitators demanded for the release of detained activist Akhil Gogoi.

However, home ministry officials said "at present there is no proposal to create the NRC in the country based on the NPR data".

The government on Tuesday approved nearly Rs 12,700 crore for carrying out the Census 2021 and updating the National Population Register (NPR), and made it clear that NPR has no relation with the contentious National Register of Citizens.

"When the government itself said in Rajya Sabha that NPR will be the basis of NRC, how many lies will BJP leaders speak and mislead people? Their hidden motives stand exposed," Akhilesh said in a tweet in Hindi.

Shortly after the Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a fund of Rs 3,941.35 crore to update the National Population Register, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday attacked the BJP government, saying its "hidden motives" to have a National Register of Citizens has been exposed.

ANI has reported that a delegation of United Muslim Action Committee will meet the Telangana chief minister tomorrow. They will give a representation to him on CAA, NRC and NPR. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi will also be a part of the delegation.

Citizenship Amendment Act protests Updates: After the union cabinet approved Rs 3,941.35 crore for updating the NPR on Tuesday, the Trinamool Congress said that BJP is trying to "fool and cheat" the people of the country as the population register is the "first step towards NRC".

Jharkhand chief minister-designate Hemant Soren on Tuesday said he will go through the details of the citizenship law and if even one person from his state is uprooted due to the amended legislation, then it will not be implemented.

Political scientist Yogendra Yadav slammed the government for claiming that the National Population Register was not linked to the National Register of Citizens. He shared the tweet of a journalist which referred to a reply given by MoS home in 2014 stating : "the government had decided to create the NRC based on the NPR by verifying the citizenship status of all individuals in the country. "

"Once again Govt caught red-handed lying brazenly," tweeted Yadav.

Responding to the claims made by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar and Home Minister Amit Shah about there being no links between the NPR and the NRC, the Congress cited the 2018-19 annual report of the home ministry which stated that the NPR is the first step of the NRC. The party also said that the same reply was given by former MoS for home Kiren Rijiju in the Rajya Sabha.

"There is no link between National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR)," said Home minister Amit Shah in an exclusive interview with ANI.

Seeking to allay fears about the NPR, the government said, "It’s a national population register, not a citizen register." Union minister Prakash Javadekar said every perosn living in India will be included in the exercise.

Addressing a press briefing, Union minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said that NPR was started by the UPA govt in 2010 and updated in 2015. This will have to be updated every 10 years, he said. "Cabinet has approved the conducting of census of India 2021 and updating of National Population Register. It is self declaration, no document or bio-metric is required for it."

The NPR exercise will be held between April and September 2020 in all states and Union Territories except Assam, where the National Register of Citizens exercise to identify illegal migrants has already been conducted.

The Union Cabinet has approved the National Population Register, reports have said. According to NDTV, the Census Commission has said the objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every "usual resident" of the country. "The database will have demographic as well as biometric details. A "usual resident", for the NPR, is a person who has lived in an area for at least six months or more, or a person who intends to live in an area for the next six months or more. It is mandatory for every "usual resident" of India to register in the NPR."

Meanwhile, hours after BJP working president JP Nadda took out a march in Kolkata in support of the newly-enacted Citizenship law on Monday, the party's West Bengal vice president Chandra Kumar Bose raised his voice against the Act and said India is a country "open to all religions and communities". "If #CAA2019 is not related to any religion why are we stating – Hindu, Sikh, Buddha, Christians, Parsis and Jains only! Why not include #Muslims as well? Let's be transparent," Bose tweeted. "Don't equate India or compare it with any other nation – as it's a nation Open to all religions and communities," he said in another tweet.

"If Muslims are not being persecuted in their home country they would not come,so there's no harm in including them. However, this is not entirely true- what about Baluch who live in Pakistan & Afghanistan? What about Ahwadiyya in Pakistan?" Bose said.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka, who were scheduled to meet the kin of those killed in anti-Citizenship Act protests in Meerut, were stopped by Uttar Pradesh Police, CNN-News18 reported.

The leaders were on their way to visit the violence-hit state. The toll in violence that occurred during protests against the CAA in Meerut on Friday rose to five, a senior police official said on Sunday.

The Tis Hazari court in Delhi on Tuesday issued a notice to the Delhi Police on a bail petition filed by six of the 15 accused who were arrested after a protest in the Daryaganj area against the citizenship law turned violent on 20 December.

Special Additional Session Judge Satish Kumar sought response from the police and slated the matter for 28 December for further hearing.

Former Congress MP Saiduzzaman made some serious allegations against Uttar Pradesh Police’s action against protesters in Muzaffarnagar.

Taking a swipe at the government’s decision to “seize and auction” property of rioters to pay off the damages caused to public property, Saiduzzaman said that who will compensate the damage to private property caused due to police excesses.

Six of the 15 accused in the violence witnessed in Delhi's Daryaganj on 20 December filed bail applications before the Tis Hazari Sessions Court. The matter will be heard today.

Five 'miscreants' have been arrested over violent demonstrations in North east Delhi’s Seelampur area had happened on 17 December. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest rally from Swami Vivekananda residence to Gandhi Bhawan in Kolkata.

Prashant Kishor, political strategist, takes on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Citizenship Act and National Register of Citizens on Tuesday and asked to declare no implementation of CAA or NRC in Congress ruled states.

The internet services in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh will remain suspended till 8 pm on 25 December, District Magistrate, Abhishek Prakash, said on Monday.

The services were snapped in several cities in view of violent protests against the newly amended Citizenship Act last week.

Protests erupted in different parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which grants Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and came to India on or before 31 December, 2014.

Restrictions under Section-144 of CrPC has also been imposed in various parts of the state due to the prevailing law and order situation.

A journalist and a lawyer were arrested in Barabanki for allegedly inciting people through social media against the contentious law, police said on Monday.

Kamran Alvi, a journalist with a local news channel, and Dilkash Rizvi, the lawyer, had been sent to jail, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.

According to reports, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s (youth wing) has called a Darjeeling bandh on 29 December, against National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act. The bandh has been called by Binoy Tamang faction of GJM and the group has said that everything will remain shut in the Darjeeling hills on that day.

On 21 December, Rizvi tried to incite communal passion and the people against the new law through Facebook Live and Alvi too tried to incite people and trigger riots through social media.

"On Monday as well, they tried to incite a crowd at the local sugarcane office. Therefore, both were arrested," he said.

In Assam, the police has arrested 393 people for their alleged involvement in the recent violent incidents and provocative posts on social media during demonstrations that turned violent in the state in the second week of December.

While addressing a press conference on Monday, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said a total of 244 cases were registered and 393 people were arrested by the police so far.

Five people were killed and over 100 people were injured in the violent incidents happened in Guwahati and other parts of Assam during the anti-CAA protests.

Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Assam police has noticed 206 offensive and provocative posts on social media from 9 December, 2019, and registered 28 cases for such offensive and provocative posts.

"Police had arrested 10 people in connection with their offensive posts on social media and out of them, five were released on bail and five sent to judicial custody," Sarma said.