India's Hindu nationalist government wins parliamentary approval for a far-reaching citizenship law that critics say undermines the country's secular constitution by excluding Muslims
Derek O'Brien, an opposition lawmaker in the upper house, on Wednesday said the legislation bore an "eerie similarity" to Nazi laws against Jews in 1930s Germany.
Modi's government — re-elected in May and under pressure over a slowing economy — says Muslims from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan are excluded from the legislation because they do not face discrimination in those countries. Many Muslims in India say they have been made to feel like second-class citizens since Modi stormed to power in 2014.
In August, Modi's administration rescinded the partial autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, and split it into two.
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