Overview
- A 48-hour general strike called by the Campaign for Just and Fair Delimitation ended this week with protesters burning effigies, staging rallies and imposing road blockades across valley districts to press for an NRC update before the census.
- The Manipur government ordered all schools, colleges and higher education institutions closed from August 20 to 22 because of the law-and-order situation created by the protests.
- Census training for supervisors and enumerators has been deferred or cancelled in key districts, with Imphal West training postponed and Thoubal sessions called off, leaving local preparations for the house-listing phase uncertain.
- The JFD has begun a boycott of state and central government offices while exempting essential services, and a 10-member delegation of community and civil society representatives has travelled to Delhi to press the Centre on the NRC demand.
- Protesters and some political actors argue that thousands of internally displaced people and unresolved migration since the 2023 violence would make an accurate house-listing impossible, which could affect future delimitation and political representation.