Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said his government wouldn’t budge even a centimetre from its decision not to enforce the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the state would continue to be a safe haven for all communities.

“We are in a safe fortress where everyone can live without any anxiety… they would have to repeal the CAA,” he told a massive gathering on Kozhikode beach where the ruling CPM held a Constitution protection rally.

The chief minister made it clear the citizenship act, National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register wouldn’t be implemented in the state.

“We will not implement the NRC and the NPR. We will not roll out the NPR. All that we would do is conduct the census. Beyond that we will not proceed even a centimetre,” he said to applause from the more than one lakh people who had thronged the beach.

“There is a difference between the census and the NPR. That is why I said the NPR will not be implemented in Kerala.”

Kerala has already declared it wouldn’t implement any of these measures and its Assembly was the first among states to pass a resolution demanding that the CAA be withdrawn.

“Kerala is not the place to roll out the RSS agenda,” he said, attacking the BJP’s ideological parent.

“The CAA, NRC and the NPR are all interlinked and are being rolled out by the BJP government with a communal agenda. But let’s not be under the impression (that) it is just against Muslims,” he said.

“Look what happened in Assam where the NRC was rolled out. Poor people with no way to find their documents were affected the most. And among them, the majority were Hindus,” he said.

Around 12 lakh of the 19 lakh left out of the register were Hindus.