GUWAHATI: Protesters in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.
People in northeast India object for different reasons, fearing that large numbers of Hindu migrants from Bangladesh who they say are intruders will be given citizenship. “We have made it clear … that CAB will not be accepted and we are going to intensify our agitation,” he told AFP.Compared to Nazis
Modi’s government says Muslims are excluded because they do not face persecution in these three countries. “I say this again and again that this bill has nothing to do with the Muslims in this country,” Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament.