Hundreds who protested or criticised the Citizenship Amendment Act have been booked in Kerala, RTI replies have revealed, triggering charges of a “double standard” against the Left Democratic Front government whose constituents too had demonstrated against the new citizenship regime. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had assured the state Assembly in early February last year that no cases had been registered against the anti-CAA protesters. His government had got a resolution passed in the Assembly saying Kerala would not implement the new citizenship act. Left parties had organised marches and human chains against the act. However, the Kerala chapter of National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations, the NGO that filed the RTI pleas, says 519 cases were registered against anti-CAA protesters in Kerala between January 1 and March 23 last year.