Hundreds of troops were deployed in northeast India Wednesday as demonstrators went on the rampage in protest at new citizenship legislation expected to pass the upper house of parliament, officials said.
The controversial bill will fast-track citizenship claims for immigrants from three neighboring countries — but not if they are Muslim.
In a third day of protests in the far-flung region, several hundred troops were deployed in Tripura state and others were on standby in Assam, a senior army official said. “If the CAB is passed in Rajya Sabha today, we appeal to all the students, civilians, tea garden workers and all sections of the society to come out to the streets again tomorrow to protest,” local activist Akhil Gogoi said.The legislation — which Modi’s government tried and failed to get through the upper house in its first term — passed the lower house just after midnight on Tuesday following a fiery debate.
P Chidambaram from the opposition Congress party said the government was “wrecking and demolishing” India’s secular constitution to advance Modi’s “Hindutva agenda”. Many Muslims in India say they have been made to feel like second-class citizens since Modi stormed to power in 2014. A citizens’ register in Assam finalized this year left 1.9 million people, many of them Muslims, facing possible statelessness, detention camps and even deportation.
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