Two people are killed in clashes with police in India's northeast as protests over a new Indian citizenship law escalate
Protesters shout slogans against the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
But thousands of protesters in the state of Assam, which shares a border with Bangladesh, say the measure would open the region to a flood of foreign migrants. Others said the bigger problem with the new law was that it undermined India's secular constitution by not offering protection to Muslims. Resistance to the bill has been the strongest in the tea-growing Assam state, where a movement against illegal immigrants from its neighbouring Bangladesh has simmered for decades.
Mobile internet has been suspended in 10 districts in Assam for 24 hours until 1330 GMT on Thursday, the government said in an order, adding that social media platforms could potentially be used to "inflame passions and thus exacerbate the law and order situation." Members of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, a bill that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, in New Delhi, India. December 11, 2019 "This a spontaneous public outburst," Nehal Jain, a masters student in communications in Guwahati, said.
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