BJP MP GVL Narsimha Rao Seeks Contempt Proceedings Against Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan For Anti-CAA Resolution, Moves Petition Before Rajya Sabha Chairman

New Delhi, December 31: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker GVL Narsimha Rao moved a petition before Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, seeking breach of Parliament privileges and contempt proceedings against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The action, he said, must be taken for the anti-CAA resolution issued by the Kerala legislative assembly earlier today. Citizenship Not State Subject, Only Parliament Mandated to Pass Law On It: Ravi Shankar Prasad on Kerala's Resolution to Scrap CAA.

In his plea, the BJP MP noted that Vijayan described the Citizenship Amendment Act as "illegal and unconstitutional", despite the legislation being passed with full majority by both Houses of the Parliament.

Update by ANI

The 140-member Kerala assembly moved a resolution earlier in the day, calling for the scrapping of CAA-NPR-NRC project of the Centre. The citizenship exercise, said Vijayan who moved the resolution, is violative of the Constitution as it uses religion as the basis for citizenship.

A total of 138 legislators, including MLAs of the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led United Democratic Front, voted in favour of the resolution. The lone BJP legislator in the Assembly, BJP's O Rajagopal, voted against the resolution. He accused the Vijayan government of misleading the House, as well as the people of Kerala, on the citizenship law.

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