CPIML Calls for Nationwide Protests Against Divisive CAA on March 14

Rejecting the discriminatory and unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act and its notification on the eve of Lok Sabha Elections, the central committee of CPIML called for a countrywide protest on March 14. Terming the CAA notification a major political conspiracy to divide the country on religious lines, CPIML has said CAA clearly seeks to polarise citizens on the basis of their religious affiliation, deceptively promising citizenship to non-Muslim 'refugees' while threatening Muslims with loss of citizenship and possible deportation. The law will also have dangerous consequences for the poor and marginalised communities — Adivasis, Dalits etc.

Soon after the notification of CAA by the Union Home Ministry on March 11, people took to the street against this discriminatory law. Despite the atmosphere of threat and intimidation by Delhi police, students from AISA and other left and progressive organisations protested against CAA in Delhi University campus on March 12. The protest was met with police repression and more than 70 students, including AISA DU President Manik Gupta, were detained.

Comrade Saumya, an AISA National Council Member, who was also detained by the police said that the police brutally thrashed the students and tore their clothes. She added that the students of DU strongly reject the divisive and discriminatory CAA-NRC-NPR package of the Modi regime and will resist the bulldozer raj.

In West Bengal, CPIML organised a protest in front of the state office in Moulali on March 12 rejecting the CAA. The protest, which was addressed by Comrades Atanu Chakraborty, Basudev Basu, Dibakar Bhattacharya and Malay Tiwari and Mamata Ghosh burned the copy of the discriminatory CAA notification.

In Assam's Jorhat, protests were organised by CPIML and RYA against the unconstitutional CAA and called for an immediate withdrawal of CAA. The protest condemned the Modi-BJP regime's political conspiracy ahead of 2024 to polarise the people.