NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in the past 10 days, officials said, as police try to quell sometimes violent demonstrations against a citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution.Those arrested and detained had been resorting to violence during the protests, said two senior federal government officials overseeing the country’s internal security who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hundreds of protesters and police have been injured in the protests, the strongest show of dissent against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government since he was first elected in 2014. Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law, outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India, December 21, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
More demonstrations were planned in several parts of the country, including in the northeastern state of Assam. Resentment against illegal immigrants from Bangladesh has simmered for years in Assam, one of India’s poorest states, where some residents accuse outsiders, Hindus or Muslims, of stealing jobs and land.
“This piece of legislation strikes at the heart of the Constitution, seeking to make India another country altogether,” prominent historian Ramachandra Guha wrote in The Telegraph.
Stop the slaughter and headhunting of pseudo religious-politique fools... turn back to GOD who declared 'LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM WHO CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU, PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU AND USE YOU FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH AGGRANDIZEMENT.' We all be fine!
lahautj Not mentioned by the corporate media either despite the death of 20 people already. During the Hong Kong uprising nobody died.
Wow, hmmmm....they could always go to Pakistan, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, there are so many countries where they can have their Sharia and eat it too. It’s almost like they want to ....
Many are islamists who claim citizenship to caliphate.
Thought the whole idea of separating Pakistan from India was so the racist Muslims and the racist Hindus lived in different countries! It won’t stop them discriminating i’ve caste though - they are all institutionally discriminatory.
I suggest you edit that tweet because you have got it all wrong, it's very dangerously misleading & will only encourage more hatred in an already incendiary atmosphere 😠
Absolutely India is right.... Radical Canadian Lawyer is forbidden to go to India assuming for the reason.
Thnx for covering the story
This law is for non Muslims who are persecuted in Pakistan Bangladesh Afghanistan. Why is there no protest against those 3 countries? Muslims can stay in those 3 countries without any problems. Muslims in India are not persecuted but only by oppn and lutyen media to cause riots.
Well you are exactly 1.5 weeks late on reporting this😂 Also the citizenship laws doesn't discriminate against Muslims it simply provides Indian citizenship to persecuted minority Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Parsi nd Buddhist from Pakistan, Afghanistan nd Bangladesh(Muslim majority)
Again, misleading headline, it does not discriminate, do your research again or perhaps without anti Indian bias.
What a stupid law. How was it allowed to pass into Law?
How India manage to have 300M Muslims NOW IS TO LATE to say they don't want any more
India has 330000000 quoted gods, millions more unquoted. all live together without shouting 'only my alla Exists' And some dumb aren't required here to teach lesson on secularism
Request your news agency and experts to read the said act and it's details and report news responsibly.
Shining India is now burning India
23 people have been murdered too by Modi's own Gastapo.
Your tweet needs correction..pls change it...it doesn't discriminate anyone by their caste..
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