R ARIVANANTHAM
KANCHIPURAM, DEC 17
DMK president M. K. Stalin on Tuesday hits out at the Citizenship Amendment Act as “hasty and autocratic” and alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the centre’s objective was not the country’s progress but trample the rights of Muslims. The opposition DMK held a statewide protest against Citizenship Act.
Addressing at a protest against BJP, AIADMK Governments in Kanchipuram, Stalin asked whether the PM fulfilled his election promises, including doubling of farmers’ income and creating two crore employment every year.
The government led by him was, however, only implementing things that were detrimental to the country, he alleged and listed out abrogation of Article 370, which “stifled democracy in Kashmir,” and bringing a law against triple talaq (Muslim Women [Protection of Rights on Marriage] Act).
Following such initiatives, the Centre has now passed the CAA in both Houses of Parliament and such aspects showed that making India grow was not the objective of Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, he claimed.
The BJP-led Centre’s “objective is trampling the (rights of) Muslims, and persecuting them,” he said.
Slamming the CAA as “hasty, autocratic, and done without due diligence,” he demanded to know why the Muslims and Tamil refugees of Sri Lanka were kept out of the ambit of the Act.
Social Democratic Party of India’s Tamil Nadu unit chief Nellai Mubarak spearheaded the party’s protest by laying siege to the Reserve Bank of India in Chennai and condemned the police highhandedness at Jamia and AMU campuses.
National vice-president of Popular Front of India O M A Salam came down heavily on the BJP Government for passing the CAA and alleged police atrocities on Jamia and AMU students.
Students stage protest in Madras University
Students of University of Madras and other colleges in the city held a demonstration on Tuesday against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens. Earlier, students of IIT-Madras and Loyola College as well as others in the State had staged protests on Monday.
Students from various institutions gathered at the Marina campus of the University of Madras in the morning and started shouting slogans against the union government. Students attribute CAA was discriminatory and divisive.
Students also opined that the CAA is threatening the economic, social and cultural identity and also unwarranted.
“We oppose the CAA and NRC tooth and nail and also condemn the brutal violence unleashed against the students in New Delhi and elsewhere in the country’’, the students said.
The city police has tightened security around the campus an also closely watching the students’ organisations, sources said.
