Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram, participating in a state-wide human chain formed in protest against the new citizenship regime on Sunday. Men and women, young and old participated in the Great Human Chain organised by the state’s ruling Left Democratic Front, mostly along a national highway. The “trial” of the human chain — a series of simultaneous local checks to ensure a continuous chain had been formed — took place around 3.40pm, ten minutes behind schedule as people were still arriving. At many places, especially CPM strongholds such as Kannur, Kollam and Alappuzha, the human chain became a human wall of multiple rows or chains, thanks to the heavy turnout. Malayalam writer T. Padmanabhan, who addressed the human chain in Kannur, chided the UDF for skipping the event.

Source: The Telegraph January 26, 2020 19:18 UTC