NEWS ANALYSIS: Outrage at India’s new citizenship law fanned by economic slowdown
Narendra Modi and his party failed to anticipate opposition to new law offering citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants
26 December 2019 - 08:42
Mumbai — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said.
In Modi’s biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of thousands have protested against the law offering citizenship to immigrants from non-Muslim minorities who have fled Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan...
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