RSS calls for nationwide NRC amid Census, SIR debate: ‘Identifying citizens necessary’

RSS calls for nationwide NRC against the backdrop of Census, SIR debate: 'Identifying citizens necessary' States NRC significant for identifying citizens to address population imbalance and protect country's unity, integrity and security.

5 min read New Delhi Updated: Oct 1, 2026 02: 14 AM IST.

Sunil Ambekar additionally sought to frame demographic change as a national security and cultural problem, arguing that India's demographic changes had a long history and had begun with Muslim invasions. (Express file photo).

At a time when the political discourse is seized with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Census is underway, the RSS on Tuesday pressed a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) and stated that identifying citizens was necessary to address "population imbalance" and protect the country's "unity, integrity and security".

Speaking at an event at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), RSS publicity in-charge Sunil Ambekar remarked there was a need to identify residents who had been "wrongly included" in electoral rolls and to ensure citizenship for those who had come to India from neighbouring countries under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

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