The Central government’s recent framing of rules to enforce the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has animated Kerala politics ahead of what portends to be a bitterly contested Lok Sabha elections.
The ramifications of the Centre’s move to fast-track CAA’s implementation have rippled across Kerala’s socio-cultural and political spectrum and reforged the election narratives of the opposing fronts.
The Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] seemed to vie with each other to tap into the growing social fear that the CAA was patently ‘anti-Muslim, ran against the grain of the Constitution and was a precursor to creating a Hindu majoritarian polity.’
