Police and paramilitary were deployed outside the mosque where more than 1,000 people joined the rally. FMTNews
December 20, 2019 10:30 PMNEW DELHI: Indian police fired tear gas and clashed with crowds of stone-throwing Muslims who took to the streets after Friday prayers across the north of the country in anger at a citizenship law they say discriminates against the secular constitution.
The backlash against the law pushed through parliament by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Dec 11 marks the strongest show of dissent since he was first elected in 2014. “We will fight till this law is rolled back. We will not back down,” said Shamim Qureishi, 42, chanting outside the mosque.
Crowds pelted stones at police in Ferozabad, Muzzafarnagar and Ghaziabad among other cities in Uttar Pradesh and police fired tear gas in the industrial city of Kanpur to disperse the crowd. Several thousand gathered on the main boulevard cutting through Jamia Milia Islamia University in south Delhi that has been the site of violent clashes with police in the last two weeks, but the protest on Friday was peaceful.
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