New Delhi’s state election early next year will be the first major electoral test for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in the wake of the mass demonstrations seen after parliament cleared the Citizenship Amendment Act on Dec 11.
“We have never asked anyone if they go to a temple or a mosque when it comes to implementing welfare schemes,” he said. Fresh demonstrations were planned for Sunday in New Delhi, and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where the largest number of deaths have occurred. Modi’s government says that the new law is required to help non-Muslim minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who fled to India before 2015 by providing them with a pathway to Indian citizenship.
Still, on Friday, some protesters clashed with police and set a car alight before being scattered by a water cannon in a commercial district in central Delhi close to where Modi held his rally on Sunday. A small regional party currently controls the state government in Delhi, but Modi’s BJP is hoping the fulfilment of a series of major manifesto promises will galvanise its right-wing support base.
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