
Meanwhile, Rajinikanth's friend, actor Kamal Haasan, has strongly condemned CAA and expressed his solidarity to students. Haasan has been regularly tweeting, condemning arrests of intellectuals and students by the police.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) seeks to grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.