Citizenship law

Communal violence over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in northeast Delhi killed at least 34 people and left over 200 injured till Thursday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people. read more

Fresh violence tore through northeast Delhi on Tuesday, taking the death toll in the communal clashes over the amended citizenship law to 13. read more

Shah on Tuesday held a meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in the national capital after violence in northeast Delhi over the amended citizenship law left seven people, including a head constable, dead. read more

Lt Governor Anil Baijal tweeted soon after that he had instructed Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to restore the law and order situation. Later in the evening, home secretary Ajay Bhalla told reporters that the situation had been brought under control. read more

Buildings around the metro station at Maujpur have suffered damages and windows of many of them have been smashed. read more

The women, carrying the national tricolour and raising slogans of ‘aazadi’, said they would not move from the site till the Centre revoke Citizenship (Amendment) Act. read more

Prashant Kishor was sacked from the Janata Dal United last month after he spoke out against the party’s stand on the citizenship law. read more

AIMIM leader Waris Pathan had at a rally recently in Karnataka purportedly said that 15 crore Muslims can dominate the other 100 crore people. read more

Since its passage in Parliament in December last year, the CAA has led to protests across the country. read more

Uddhav Thackeray’s stand on the citizenship law comes amid a back-and-forth with Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party over the National Investigation Agency taking over the probe into the Elgar Parishad case. read more

The police said that they will probe the clip, which prompted a top Jamia official to say that it vindicates the university’s stand. read more

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act have rocked the nation since the controversial law was passed by both the houses of Parliament last year. read more

“We are going as the home minister himself invited us, and that we could speak to him within three days,” said Sarvari, an elderly woman protester, more commonly known as one of the ‘Dadis’ of Shaheen Bagh. read more

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said the Centre is trying to shift the basis of citizenship from territory to religion. read more

Nagaland, which has the inner line permit (ILP) regime in place, doesn’t come under the purview of the CAA and the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP)-BJP alliance has been maintaining that the legislation would have no impact in the state. read more