Following the attack on his cavalcade in Bihar, the CPI on Saturday sought adequate protection for its party leader and former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar.
CPI general secretary D Raja took up the matter of providing security to Kanhaiya Kumar in a letter to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Kanhaiya Kumar's cavalcade was attacked in Arrah on Friday by a mob opposing his state-wide tour against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), seriously damaging the vehicle in which he was travelling and leaving several people injured.
"The purpose of my writing to you is to draw your attention and seek your intervention to stop the attacks on our comrade Kanhaiya Kumar, who is member of the National Executive of our party and former president of JNUSUS," Raja said in a letter to the Bihar chief minister.
"You are aware of the situation in the country today. The BJP led government at the centre has plunged the whole country into a turmoil by passing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)," he wrote.
Raja said "it has become very clear by this time that CAA-NRC-NPR are to be understood as one entity". He said the CAA is discriminatory against one particular minority community and it is violative of the basic tenet on citizenship of the country's Constitution.
Kanhaiya Kumar has been leading a Jan-Gan-Man yatra in Bihar against the CAA-NRC-NPR which started on January 30 from Bapudham, Champaran and is likely to conclude on February 27 at Patna.