Agitators defied prohibitory orders across regions, prompting authorities to detain activists and politicians on Thursday
CAA protest updates: Thousands defied a ban on public protests across cities on Thursday, risking arrest to express their anger against a controversial religion-based citizenship law introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
Two persons were killed in Mangaluru, Karnataka, and another died in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, due to gunshot wounds. Protests are expected to continue Friday after protesters took to the streets on Thursday despite curfew-like restrictions imposed in parts of Delhi and places nearby, tech hub Bengaluru and in Uttar Pradesh.
No one from Bangladesh will get to enter Assam by means of amended Citizenship Act
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said that the citizenship law did not encourage fresh influx from Bangladesh, but those that fled the neighbouring country and moved to the state decades ago due to religious persecution would be able to apply for Indian citizenship. Allaying fears of the state’s indigenous population, who are wary that the law would threaten their identity, Sonowal said “not a single person of Bangladesh will get to enter Assam through CAA”.
“Only those people who have been living in Assam for decades having fled religious persecution in Bangladesh would be able to apply for Indian citizenship,” he told reporters at a press meet here. Once the process of filing applications for citizenship is over, a list of the claimants would be published, the chief minister stated. The number would be “negligible”, he insisted…
