CAA | Only parliamentary law by Congress-led INDIA bloc govt can annul the Act, says Kerala Opposition Leader
The HinduKerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has said only parliamentary legislation by a Congress-led INDIA bloc government can annul the “patently anti-Muslim” and schismatic Citizenship Amendment Act. Inaugurating the Congress’s march to Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram on March 13 to protest against the Centre’s notification of the Citizenship Rules, Mr. Satheesan termed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s steady refrain that Kerala would not implement the Central law a “Constitutional improbability aimed at deluding voters in Kerala”. Mr. Satheesan said the BJP was “inherently duplicitous.” In 2019, the Central government temporarily staved off judicial scrutiny of the CAA by lying to the Supreme Court that it did not seek to enforce the contentious law. Mr. Satheesan said the Sangh Parivar had unleashed “an establishment-backed war” on minorities, backward classes and Dalits.