The Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee will hold a statewide movement against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), economic slowdown, rise in crimes against women and unemployment from the first week of January.

Newly elected PCC president Pijush Kanti Biswas told reporters here on Tuesday that they would start the movement against the BJP’s anti-people policies from the block level.

“After the BJP came to power in 2014, there has been anarchy across the country, economic slowdown, rise in crimes against women, high unemployment rate and the highest number of farmers have committed suicide,” Biswas claimed.

He said the CAA, passed by the BJP in Parliament, was an attack upon the Constitution. “Because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, the entire country is burning. The Constitution clearly mentions that there will be no law that divides on the lines of religion and caste. But the CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) create divisions on religious lines. These have created a fear psychosis in the country. It will affect the citizens of India. In Assam, actual citizens are in NRC detention camps. As many as 35 people have committed suicide in the detention camps of Assam,” he alleged.

Biswas said on December 9, Shah had said his government would introduce NRC in the entire country but Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently said at a mass rally in Delhi that his government had never said it would implement the NRC in the country.

“We do not understand whom to believe. We want a clarification. We will increase our movement against such decisions,” he said.