- Title: India citizenship law protests spread, Priyanka Gandhi slams government
- Date: 16th December 2019
- Summary: MAU, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (DECEMBER 16, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) (NIGHT SHOTS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF POLICEMEN FIRING TEAR GAS SHELLS, POLICE GATHERED ON STREET POLICEMEN RUNNING / POLICEMEN THROWING STONES (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, GYAN PRAKASH TRIPATHI, SAYING: "Right now, section 144 has been imposed in a peaceful manner. There is peace everywhere and everyone should go to their homes. If anyone is found roaming outside unnecessarily and if there are more than four people, then action will be taken." NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 16, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) (NIGHT SHOTS) PROTESTERS WITH PLACARDS, SOME STANDING ON BARRICADES CHANTING PLACARD READING (Hindi): 'THE GOVERNMENT THAT FIRES BULLETS ON STUDENTS IS USELESS' VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH PLACARDS, SOME STANDING ON BARRICADES CHANTING NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 16, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF INDIA'S OPPOSITION CONGRESS LEADER, PRIYANKA GANDHI SITTING WITH PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF GANDHI SITTING HOLDING PLACARD INDIAN POLITICIAN, JAGDISH TYTLER AT PROTEST GANDHI AND OTHERS SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) INDIA'S OPPOSITION CONGRESS LEADER, PRIYANKA GANDHI, SAYING: "The government has attacked students by entering universities, so we will fight for the Constitution (of India). We have said it time and again that we will fight against the government." PEOPLE GATHERED AT INDIA GATE WAR MEMORIAL / PROTESTERS GATHERED
- Embargoed: 30th December 2019 18:02
- Keywords: India citizenship law protests
- Location: MAU, UTTAR PRADESH AND NEW DELHI, INDIA
- City: MAU, UTTAR PRADESH AND NEW DELHI, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001BA86A13
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART QUALITY AS INCOMING
Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses and across India on Monday (December 16).
Critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the country's founding as a secular republic.
India's opposition Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over police action on university students as she sat down for a 'symbolic' protest at the India Gate war memorial in New Delhi.
Anger with Modi's government was stoked by allegations of police brutality at Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday (December 15) when officers entered the campus in the capital New Delhi and fired tear gas to break up a protest. At least 100 people were wounded.
Under the law passed by parliament last week, religious minorities such as Hindus and Christians in neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who settled in India before 2015 will have a path to citizenship on grounds they faced persecution in those countries.
Critics say the law, which does not make the same provision for Muslims, weakens India's secular foundations.
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