Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar repeated on Sunday that the National Register for Citizens would not be implemented in the state and said the National Population Register would be updated the way it was done in 2010.

“NRC is not going to be implemented here and only NPR will be carried out the way it was done in the year 2010. It will be done on the basis of that only,” Nitish said, according to an official release.

The chief minister had earlier asked the Centre to drop the new questions introduced in the NPR forms, including those about parents’ place of birth and Aadhaar, saying these were “not necessary” and might lead to apprehensions.

The reason protests have erupted against the NPR is that in its new form it is seen as the first step for a nationwide NRC.

Some of the fields on which data were not sought in the 2010 NPR but are being sought now are the date and place of birth of parents, Aadhaar number, passport number, mobile phone number, voter identity card number, driving licence number and mother tongue.

Nitish was speaking at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University at Chandanpatti in Hayaghat block of Darbhanga district.

His party, the Janata Dal United, had supported the Citizenship Amendment Act in Parliament.