India beefs up security amid outrage against new law, anger with police

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The government expects all state security officials to be on duty on Christmas Eve and through the holiday week.

Indian authorities stepped up security and shut down the internet in various places on Tuesday while members of the ruling party planned marches backing a new citizenship law even though nationwide protests against it are escalating.

At least 20 rallies in support or against the new law were scheduled in different cities with protesters from both sides canvassing on social media to get people out over Christmas and the New Year. Elsewhere, critics say the law discriminates against Muslims and is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda. The government denies that.

“We want to explain that the law is not anti-Muslim and we want to expose that those who are leading the protests against the law are misleading innocent, uneducated Muslims,” said BJP spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal. “We have proof that an Islamic group with its headquarters in Delhi and its strongest base in the southern state in Kerala is behind the violence in the UP,” said senior police officer Kalanidhi Naithani.

“The authorities should prosecute violent protesters, but they also need to hold police officers to account for using excessive force,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, the group’s South Asia director.

 

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Islamofascists are always pretending to be victims. PMOIndia should go ahead and implement this new law. In fact, 21st century Malaysians should demand pakatanharapan_ implements such a similar law so that the Islamofascists are forced to declare themselves Malaysians first.

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