Five Left Parties call on protest action against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Immediately after the Rajya Sabha passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, President Ramnath Kovind has given his Presidential Assent. The hasty manner in which the President of India has given his Assent, reveals that the government is having a hidden agenda in bringing the Act. Terming this act as a direct assault on India’s secular character, five Left Parties have announced a nation wide joint protest action on 19^th December, 2019. Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, has declared that the communally polarising law, that discriminates Islam as a religion, has no place in Kerala. Captain Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab has announced that his government would not allow the legislation to be implemented in Punjab.