The “enormity” of the new citizenship law and the citizens’ list NRC combined will “irrevocably redefine Indian citizenship”, wrote over 130 students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as they expressed solidarity with the student protests that have erupted across India.
They said the democratic and secular foundation of the country is “under imminent threat”.
Condemning the police action on the students of Delhi’s Jamia Milia Isliamia and Aligarh Muslim University, as well as the crackdown on protests in other parts of the country, 135 students, faculty, staff and alumni of the prestigious university praised those who hit the streets in protest.
A statement signed by 135 MIT faculty, staff, students, alumni, and affiliates on India’s CAA:https://t.co/9E75YnseYQ
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) December 26, 2019
Students across the world, including those from Oxford University and Harvard University, have expressed concern over the use of police force during the protests.
Confronted with plenty of protests, several of which have been powerful, BJP has stepped up firefighting endeavors and intends to combine with three crore families over the following 10 days in an outreach endeavor.
The Citizenship Act makes religion the test of citizenship in India. The government announces it will support minorities from three Muslim-dominated nations to get citizenship if people decamped to India because of religious oppression. Critics state it is produced to separate upon Muslims and defiles the worldly principles of the constitution.
