[AnNahar] Fresh protests rocked India on Monday as anger grew over new citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Moslem, after six people died in the northeast and up to 200 were maimed in New Delhi.
The law fast-tracks citizenship for non-Moslems from three neighbouring countries. Critics say it is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise the 200-million strong Islamic minority.
Modi on Monday denied this, tweeting that the new law "does not affect any citizen of India of any religion", while accusing "vested interest groups" of stoking the "deeply distressing" unrest. |