CPI(M) to launch house-to-house campaign to explain 'link'

Intensifying its protests against the Controversial Citizenship Act, CPI(M) said it would soon launch a nation-wide house-to-house campaign and explain to the people the "link" between CAA- NPR-NRC.

The intense campaign would take place all over the country, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said while briefing the media about the three-day central committee held at nearby Vilapilsala.

The Central committee has also called upon the people "not to answer any questions concerning the NPR" when the enumerators come to their houses, Yechury said.

"The ongoing people's movement comprising students, youth, women and ordinary citizens, clearly shows that people realise the threat posed by the CAA to our Constitution.

These protests are continuing everyday in various locations in the country for nearly two months," he said.

Claiming that the legislation was "not just unconstitutional but anti-constitutional," Yechury said the party condemned the police violence that had taken place during the anti-CAA protests country-wide.

Innocent people were "targeted and framed for the damage of property caused by the police," he alleged.

"The NPR and NRC prepared will affect millions of poor people, tribals, dalits, homeless, disabled, transgenders and other marginalised communities ad targeting the minority Muslim community," the party said in a statement, adding many of these sections will find it impossible to produce documents to have their name entered into the NRC.

Asked about the Congress-led UDF backing out from the joint protest against the CAA in the state, Yechury said the fight against the Act was beyond politics.

"The protest is not based on election fronts. There is no political joining of hands. We are fighting beyond politics.

We need to save India for a better India. If Congress has backed out, they have to answer," he said.

The party has also provided "a new slogan for the people" to protest against the National Population Register (NPR)--"Jawaab Nahi Denge" (We shall not answer).

"The Central committee also decided that all party units will conduct a house-to-house campaign explaining the linkage between the NPR and the NRC and calling upon the people not to answer the NPR question," Yechury said.

The CPI(M) also demanded that all the detention centres be dismantled and the directions to set up the such centres in various states be withdrawn.

The party expressed shock over the comment of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat that de-radicalisation camps are needed for people including young children who are being radicalized in the country, particularly in Kashmir.

"Shockingly, he indicated that such camps are already functioning. The Modi government must immediately clarify if such camps exist in Jammu & Kashmir."