Rajasthan became the second state after Kerala, a state on India's tropical Malabar Coast, to challenge the new citizenship law that sparked massive protests across the nation. The state government filed its suit under Article 131 of the Constitution, according to which the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction to the exclusion of other courts in cases between states and federal government or between states. Left-ruled Kerala filed the anti-citizenship plea in the Supreme Court on January 14. Congress-ruled Rajasthan had passed a resolution against the CAA in January, the third state to do so after Kerala and Punjab. Later West Bengal and Telangana also passed resolutions to withdraw the controversial citizenship law.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 17, 2020 09:33 UTC