Protest continues in Kerala, TN
Scores of students from different colleges held a protest outside the State Secretariat against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 and National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Wednesday.
“We are Trivandrum college students protesting against the NRC and CAA. We have no religion only one emotion which is Indian. The BJP government is discriminating against the people based on caste, color and religion,” Nadarsha a student told ANI.
The students gathered outside the state secretariat and raised slogans demanding a ban on both CAA and NRC.
A similar protest also took place on Wednesday in Kochi where hundreds of students from different colleges took out a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019.
In Chennai, a section of students of Madras University continued their protest for the third day on Wednesday against the controversial Citizenship Act, as actor politician Kamal Haasan visited them to express solidarity.
Meanwhile, normalcy returned in Guwahati while the curfew imposed in Dibrugarh was relaxed for 14 hours since 6 am on Wednesday. The curfew imposed in Guwahati, the gateway to the Northeast, on December 11 in the wake of protests against the citizenship law was lifted on Tuesday following improvement in law and order, officials said.
No fresh incidents of violence have been reported in Assam on Wednesday morning.
Businesses and banks in Guwahati were open and vehicles plied the roads but schools and colleges were closed.