▶️ A whole bunch of individuals from varied Muslim organizations protested Friday, December 13, in central New Delhi in opposition to the brand new citizenship act, which was handed by the Indian Parliament this week.
👉 The invoice will make six non secular teams — Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Parsis and Buddhists — who got here to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan earlier than December 31, 2014, eligible for Indian citizenship. The federal government says it’s supposed to provide sanctuary to minorities who fled non secular persecution in these international locations.
Critics say the Citizenship Modification Invoice, which handed the higher home of Parliament Wednesday, would result in a flood of immigrants into Assam and different northeast states, and would marginalize India’s minority Muslims, which they declare is a purpose of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist authorities.
Two folks have been killed within the ongoing protests.
(VOA/AP)
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