Congress stares at loss of state govts as contradictions emerge over NPR

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday asked all non-BJP chief ministers to not conduct the National Population Register (NPR) in their respective states, while the Congress party continued to waffle on how its state governments proposed to oppose the exercise to be carried out along with the decennial Census from April 1.

Several from among the Congress’s think tank, particularly the lawyers within its ranks, have said the states cannot defy the Centre on carrying out the NPR. This contradicts the joint resolution the Congress signed and released along with 19 other opposition parties last week.

The resolution