Overview
- A 48-hour shutdown called by the Campaign for Just and Fair Delimitation has paralysed markets, schools and public transport across Manipur’s five valley districts on Tuesday.
- Student-led protests have disrupted Census 2027 preparations by forcing trainees to leave sessions, attempting to block the Directorate of Census Operations and staging torch rallies in Imphal.
- Police used crowd-control measures including tear gas and lathi-charge to disperse demonstrators, and accounts differ on injuries with protesters reporting multiple hurt and police saying only a few sustained minor wounds.
- State leaders travelled to New Delhi to press the NRC-before-census demand and seek a postponement, with former chief minister N. Biren Singh saying Union Home Minister Amit Shah gave a 'patient hearing.'
- Organisers link the push for an NRC and the return of internally displaced people to long-running ethnic violence since 2023, warning that census enumeration without a register could alter demographic records and heighten local tensions.