India's push to offer citizenship to non-Muslims persecuted from three neighbouring countries sparks protests
Protesters took to the streets in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial bill in parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslim minorities who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Oppositions politicians inside parliament, and protesters in several Indian cities, said the bill discriminated against Muslims and violated India’s secular constitution. Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill and National Register of Citizens, in Kolkata But protesters returned to the streets in Assam - one of India’s remote northeastern states that had previously opposed the bill — and blocked roads, burnt tyres and painted walls with slogans against the new proposal.
In Modi’s home state of Gujarat and the eastern city of Kolkata, hundreds of people staged protests and marched against the proposed law.
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