Clashes continue between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as PM Modi defends legislation and accuses opposition of creating a 'fear psychosis'
PM Narendra Modi defends controversial citizenship law but says nearly 200 million minority Muslims"don't need to worry at all" –– provided they are genuine Indians.
At least 25 people have been killed in 10 days of demonstrations and violence after Modi's government passed the law criticised as anti-Muslim. More protests took place on Sunday. Accusing the main opposition Congress party and what he said were "urban Naxals" of condoning the recent violence by not condemning it, Modi said opponents were "spreading rumours that all Muslims will be sent to detention camps."
Around a dozen vehicles were set on fire as protesters rampaged through the northern cities of Rampur, Sambhal, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnore, and Kanpur, where a police station was also torched, Singh said. Critics have slammed the legislation as a violation of India's secular constitution and have called it the latest effort by the Modi government to marginalise the country's nearly 200 million Muslims. Uttar Pradesh state is controlled by Modi's ruling BJP.
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