Police use water cannon to disperse activists of Indian Youth Congress protesting after the central government notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, in Thiruvananthapuram, Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday organised a dharna in front of the Raj Bhavan here to protest against the Central government's decision to enforce the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Addressing the dharna, Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, V D Satheesan, alleged that the BJP-led government issued the CAA notification to divide the people along communal lines.
"When the Congress was in power at the Centre, we brought several legislations to uplift the lives of the poor. But when the BJP came to power, they enacted laws to divide the people for political purposes," the Congress leader alleged.
He said that the Congress will fight the law and there will be no compromise on it.
Several leaders of the party, including UDF convenor and senior party leader M M Hassan, CWC member and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, and Attingal MP Adoor Prakash, attended the function.