Indian police ban protests amid citizenship law outrage
Police detained several hundred protesters in some of India’s biggest cities Thursday as they defied bans on assembly that authorities imposed to stop widespread demonstrations against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens the country’s secular democracy.
The new citizenship law applies to Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally but can demonstrate religious persecution in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims.Critics say it’s the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government to marginalize India’s 200 million Muslims, and a violation of the country’s secular constitution.
“This may be a crack in the edifice” of the Modi government, said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a political analyst and Modi biographer. Video on Thursday captured historian Ramchandra Guha, a biographer of independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, manhandled by police as he was detained in Bangalore, the capital of southern Karnataka state, where the government had issued a ban on groups of more than four people gathering.Guha told New Delhi TV on Thursday evening that police crammed him and hundreds of other detainees into a wedding hall and later let them leave without explanation.
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