Indian-Americans community protest against CAA, NRC, NPR in California

Los Angeles: Hundreds of members of the Indian-American community took to the streets in California to mark India’s Republic Day and protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the National Population Register (NRC).

The protest rally took place on Sunday in the city of Artesia, about 19 miles from Los Angeles, reports Indica News.

Rajashik Tarafder, a research scholar at Caltech who participated in the rally, said: “Even if the Supreme Court sides with the government, I encourage all the people in India and abroad to do what is right and resist. Legal or not, the CAA and NRC must be repealed to preserve the spirit of the Constitution.” The rally in Artesia was one of several organized across the US, from Decatur, Illinois to Waltham, Massachusetts, as part of a National Day of Action. Prerna Chawla, one of the organizers of Sunday’s rally who also helped to put together a December protest in front of the LA City Hall, said: “We came together as a group organically in December after being distraught about what was happening in our motherland... After our first protest at LA City Hall, we wanted to go on fighting against the CAA and NRC and decided to take our protest to Artesia. (IANS)

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