<p class="title">Kolkata West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday urged people to stop protesting the new citizenship law as the Supreme Court has refused to stay its operation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act but refused to stay its operation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"@MamataOfficial. Now that the Supreme Court is seized of the challenge to the validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and has granted no stay, I appeal all to give up agitational path in the interest of peace so that normalcy returns and suffering of people is contained," Dhankhar tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The top court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Centre and sought its response by the second week of January next year on a batch of pleas challenging the Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Act provides Indian citizenship rights to non-Muslim migrants of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">President Ram Nath Kovind had given assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on December 12, turning it into an Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Violent protests against the amended Citizenship Act had erupted in several districts of West Bengal since December 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Agitators had set fire to railway properties and buses in different parts of the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP had also taken out rallies in support of the Act.</p>
<p class="title">Kolkata West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday urged people to stop protesting the new citizenship law as the Supreme Court has refused to stay its operation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act but refused to stay its operation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"@MamataOfficial. Now that the Supreme Court is seized of the challenge to the validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and has granted no stay, I appeal all to give up agitational path in the interest of peace so that normalcy returns and suffering of people is contained," Dhankhar tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The top court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Centre and sought its response by the second week of January next year on a batch of pleas challenging the Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Act provides Indian citizenship rights to non-Muslim migrants of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">President Ram Nath Kovind had given assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on December 12, turning it into an Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Violent protests against the amended Citizenship Act had erupted in several districts of West Bengal since December 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Agitators had set fire to railway properties and buses in different parts of the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP had also taken out rallies in support of the Act.</p>