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Kerala couples protest

Social media pictures show bride and groom holding placards with the words “No CAA… No NRC”

PTI Thiruvananthapuram Published 23.12.19, 10:22 PM
Kerala brides and grooms have joined the battle against the citizenship law.

Kerala brides and grooms have joined the battle against the citizenship law. (Shutterstock)

Not just people on open streets and college campuses, even brides and grooms have joined the battle against the citizenship law.

Elsewhere, it is Christmas celebrations that have turned into protest venues against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

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Youths from various parts of Kerala have posted their wedding photographs on social media showing the bride and the groom hold placards with the words “No CAA… No NRC” at marriage venues.

In one video that has gone viral, the bride and the groom walk to the reception centre holding placards criticising the act, while another shows the couple accompanied by their friends raising slogans against the amended law.

In yet another video, a bride in a red lehenga holds an anti-CAA placard in one hand while walking hand-in-hand with the groom through a busy road.

A poster of a couple that appeared in politically volatile Kannur district read “India will not budge... we will not be silent”.

In one photo, a Hindu groom wearing a skullcap walks with the bride, apparently in protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that those resorting to violence could be identified by their clothes.

Arun Gopi and Asha Shekhar, who recently shot their “save-the-date” photos, holding placards against the CAA and the National Register of Citizens, said they wanted to send a message through the innovative idea. “Save-the-date” is a practice among youths to announce the wedding date.

The couple, who would tie the knot on January 30, said they decided to make the pre-wedding photos a political statement and so came out with photographs with anti-CAA messages.

A group of students of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam recently organised their annual Christmas celebrations on the campus in a different way — with Santa Claus carrying placards and posters against the CAA and holding photographs of national leaders like Gandhiji and B.R. Ambedkar.

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