Citizenship Act will shred India’s soul, Modi-Shah not bothered: Sonia
India Today, New Delhi :
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said at a massive Delhi rally on Saturday that the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act would “shred the soul of India”.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah weren’t bothered, she said.
India’s Northeast in particular has witnessed angry demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which fast-tracks naturalisation for non-Muslim minority refugees who faced religious persecution in Bangladesh-which borders a number of Northeast states-and two other Muslim-majority nations.
Critics say the law deliberately discriminates against Muslims, and indigenous people in the Northeast worry that it endangers their identity and livelihood.
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said at a massive Delhi rally on Saturday that the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act would “shred the soul of India”.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah weren’t bothered, she said.
India’s Northeast in particular has witnessed angry demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which fast-tracks naturalisation for non-Muslim minority refugees who faced religious persecution in Bangladesh-which borders a number of Northeast states-and two other Muslim-majority nations.
Critics say the law deliberately discriminates against Muslims, and indigenous people in the Northeast worry that it endangers their identity and livelihood.
