‘World is watching’: US lawmakers express concern over Delhi violence

Reacting to the violence that has claimed at least 13 lives in the past a couple of days, US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the ‘deadly surge of religious intolerance in India is horrifying’

International News: The savagery over the corrected citizenship act in India’s capital New Delhi drew sharp responses from US legislators with the prevailing press noticeably revealing it alongside the simply finished up visit of President Donald Trump. Responding to the savagery that has asserted in any event 13 lives in the previous two or three days, US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the “lethal flood of strict prejudice in India is astonishing”. “Majority rule governments ought not endure division and segregation or advance laws that undermine strict opportunity,” she said in a tweet, including that the “world is viewing”.

The Indian Parliament had passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) a year ago, bringing about a progression of fights the nation over. Pramila Jayapal had a year ago presented a Congressional goals encouraging India to end the limitations on correspondences in Jammu and Kashmir and save strict opportunity for all inhabitants.

Congressman Alan Lowenthal too named the savagery a “sad disappointment of good administration”. “We should stand up despite dangers to human rights in India,” he said. Popularity based presidential applicant and Senator Elizabeth Warren additionally a swipe at the savagery, saying, “It’s critical to fortify associations with equitable accomplices like India. Be that as it may, we should have the option to talk honestly about our qualities, including strict opportunity and opportunity of articulation, and viciousness against tranquil dissidents is rarely adequate.”

Grilled on CAA at WEF, Goyal says Muslims in India safer than anywhere else

Defending the new citizenship amendment law, Goyal also said, ‘India has a duty to protect people who are sufferers of religious persecution’

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said Muslims in India are safer than most places in the world. “India is probably one of the most inclusive societies in the world,” Goyal said here at a session on ‘Strategic Outlook: India’ at the WEF 2020. “India is a country which welcomes all diverse viewpoints, all diverse opinions, the Muslims in India are safer than any other part of the world in terms of equal opportunity,” he stressed. He further noted that there is absolutely no discrimination in any of the government programmes.

“When we take electricity to every home we do not ask them their colour or their religion, when we take toilets, digital tech, bank accounts, cooking gas to every home we do not ask their religion. All our programmes are equal for all,” the minister said. Defending the new citizenship amendment Act, Goyal also said, “India has a duty to protect people who are sufferers of religious persecution.”

The minister for Railways as well as Commerce and Industry, said India is a land that has the power of democracy, demography, leadership, talent, culminating in the “power of opportunity.” “Citizenship is an area that every country protects, that every country has the rules of the game, every country has citizenship laws that are respected by the world,” he said. He further said there are about 57 odd islamic countries in the world and except for one or two, every country respects that what India is doing is for the welfare of the people of India, across all religion” he said…

CAA protest: Internet ban in Lucknow; Jio, BSNL resume service in Assam

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…