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• India’s main opposition party to stage protest against new citizenship law

  The protest, led by Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, comes at a time when tens and thousands of demonstrators have taken to India's streets to call for the revocation of the law, which critics say is the latest effort by Modi's government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims.

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  Dec 23, 2019
  
• India’s PM addresses rally as violent protests over citizenship bill continue

  Twenty-three people have been killed nationwide since the law was passed in Parliament earlier this month in protests that represent the first major roadblock for Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda since his party’s landslide re-election last spring.

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  Dec 22, 2019
  
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• Death toll rises to 23 as India citizenship bill protests continue

  The ongoing backlash against the law marks the strongest show of dissent against the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he was first elected in 2014.

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  Dec 21, 2019
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• Supreme Court in India postpones hearing pleas challenging new citizenship bill

  Protests and widespread condemnation have been growing against the Citizenship Amendment Act, with demonstrations erupting in India over the last week.

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  Dec 18, 2019
• Students in India decry police as citizenship bill protests continue

  Police fired tear gas Tuesday in the Seelampur area of New Delhi to push back protesters who swarmed to barricades and threw stones Protests were also reported in the states of West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka and elsewhere.

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  Dec 17, 2019
• Here’s why people are protesting India’s citizenship bill

  What is the CAB, and why are people protesting? Here's a look at what's going on.

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  Dec 16, 2019
• Protests continue across India as opposition builds against citizenship law

  Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the northeast on Monday to protest a new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally to flee religious persecution in several neighbouring countries.

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  Dec 16, 2019