Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of “lacking sincerity” in opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as his government “failed to withdraw the cases” registered against over 800 persons who protested after it was passed by Parliament in 2019.
“The Chief Minister had assured that the cases would be withdrawn. He should answer why he failed to keep his promise even after about five years of registering the case against the protesters. Is the government siding with the Centre by not withdrawing the cases?” asked Mr. Satheesan in Kochi on March 12 (Tuesday).
Recalling that the United Democratic Front (UDF) had repeatedly raised the issue in the Assembly and outside, Mr. Satheesan alleged that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government “did not have even an iota of genuineness” in its opposition to the CAA as it failed to keep the promise of withdrawing the cases.
