The BJP-ruled Selu municipal council in Parbhani district of Maharashtra has unanimously passed a resolution against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens.

Council chairman Vinod Borade said on Monday that the resolution had been “passed by majority without any opposition on February 28”.

He said the nagar parishad had 27 councillors, including three co-opted members. The local public representatives too were in favour of the move, he added.

Borade said he had summoned a meeting two days before the resolution was passed, as demanded by the members of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress and seven councillors from the Muslim community.

The new citizenship matrix has triggered countrywide protests amid fears that it would be used to deprive many Muslims of their Indian citizenship.