Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) through kolams continued in the State on Monday, with members of the DMK decorating the outside of their houses with kolams that had anti-CAA messages. On Sunday, police had detained eight residents, including 5 women for drawing kolams that protested the CAA in Besant Nagar. Stalin and DMK Lok Sabha member M. Kanimozhi tweeting photographs of the outside of their residences that had kolams with messages against the CAA, such as ‘Vendaam CAA’. A kolam with a message against the CAA and NRC was also drawn in front of TNCC president K. S. Alagiri’s residence in Keerapalayam in Cuddalore district on Monday. Mr. Alagiri too, condemned the detaining of the residents in Chennai for drawing kolams.

Source: The Hindu December 30, 2019 06:42 UTC