Author-activist Arundhati Roy on Wednesday said the National Population Register would serve as a database for the National Register of Citizens and asked people to confuse officials by furnishing wrong names and addresses when they knock on their doors under the NPR drive.

Home minister Amit Shah had on Tuesday denied any link between the NPR and the NRC and said their databases could not be used for the other.

Roy said officials would visit people’s homes under the NPR exercise for taking their names, addresses and other details. “They will visit your homes, take your name, phone number and ask for documents like Aadhaar and driving licences. The NPR will become a database of the NRC,” she told a protest meeting at Delhi University.

“We need to fight against it and have a plan. When they visit your home for the NPR, and ask for your name, give them some different name.... For address, say 7 RCR. A lot of subversion will be needed, we are not born to face lathis and bullets.”

(7 Race Course Road was the address of the Prime Minister’s official residence. Now, the road is known as Lok Kalyan Marg.)

Roy accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of telling a “lie” at his Ramlila Ground rally here on Sunday that his government had never said anything about the NRC process and that there were no detention camps in the country.