Let us raise level of protests, says Chidambaram on Republic Day

Amid nationwide agitation against citizenship law CAA, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today called for raising the level of protests and said "as long as freedom is denied to any number of people, the whole population is denied freedom".

Greeting people on Republic Day, Mr Chidambaram said the soul of the Constitution lies in the freedoms guaranteed to citizens. These freedoms were given by the people unto themselves and no government can take them away, he said in a series of tweets.

"Remember that today, we think of the 70 lakh people of the Kashmir valley whose freedoms have been taken away. Add to that the outrageous charges, including sedition, slapped against hundreds of protesters by the authoritarian government," Mr Chidambaram said.