- Title: Silent marches held across India to protest citizenship law
- Date: 30th December 2019
- Summary: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (DECEMBER 30, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF STUDENTS MARCHING IN SILENT PROTEST PROTESTER HOLDING UP A PLACARD IN ONE HAND AND INDIAN FLAG IN THE OTHER STUDENTS MARCHING FEET OF PROTESTERS / PROTESTERS MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT PROTESTER, SAYING: "If we are protesting against something, you can't come and kill us, right? We have a right to life. You can't just come and kill us and destroy our libraries that is how we get education." PURULIA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (DECEMBER 30, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF CHIEF OF INDIA'S EASTERN WEST BENGAL STATE, MAMATA BANERJEE, LEADING PROTEST MARCH VARIOUS OF PURULIA RESIDENTS WATCHING THE MARCH (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) CHIEF OF INDIA'S EASTERN WEST BENGAL STATE, MAMATA BANERJEE, SAYING: "We won't let them kick anyone out, this is our promise. Centre can make laws but who implements it? States do... Centre has no authority here, how will they implement the law here. If you see in India, 90 percent states are in the hands of their opposition parties, not in the hands of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)." KANNUR, KERALA, INDIA (DECEMBER 30, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) PROTESTS VARIOUS OF POLICE TRYING TO MOVE PROTESTERS NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 30, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) SECURITY PERSONNEL WALKING NEAR INDIA GATE WAR MEMORIAL PROTESTERS WEARING MASKS AND CARRYING LONG TRI-COLOURED FLAG PROTESTER WEARING A MASK AND HOLDING UP FLAG PROTESTERS HOLDING UP FLAG PROTESTERS CARRYING FLAG / INDIA GATE
- Embargoed: 13th January 2020 14:58
- Keywords: CAA Citizenship Amendment Act India Mamata Banerjee NRC Pakistan protest refugees
- Location: PURULIA, KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL/ NEW DELHI/ KANNUR, KERALA, INDIA
- City: PURULIA, KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL/ NEW DELHI/ KANNUR, KERALA, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001BC61LC7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Students, politicians, and political youth activists, carried out silent marches across India on Monday (December 30) adding to the series of nationwide protests against a new citizenship law.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aims to fast-track citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who arrived in India before 2015, from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
In eastern Kolkata city in West Bengal, a students' group carried out a march in support of students of Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University who clashed with police in Delhi this month.
The state's chief minister Mamata Banerjee led a march with her supporters and said the federal government would not be be able to force states in implementing the law.
Similar scenes were witnessed in New Delhi where members of Youth Congress wore masks and carried a huge tri-coloured flag in the colours of Indian national flag, in a march to India Gate War Memorial.
Critics say the law is an attack on the country's secular constitution by the Hindu nationalist government lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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