CAA protests: Five dead in Assam, amid partial relaxation on curfews
Two teenagers were killed in police firing on Thursday's CAB protests.
Two teenagers were killed in police firing on Thursday's CAB protests.
The rights body said that the amended law 'appears to undermine the commitment to equality before the law enshrined in India's Constitution'.
Protests took an ugly turn in the northeast, especially in Assam, where at least two people were killed and several others injured in police firing.
In Beldanga, Citizenship Act protestors torched the station master's cabin and ransacked the ticket counter before setting it on fire.
The statement came after chief ministers of five states -- West Bengal, Punjab, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh -- refused to implement the law while terming it as 'unconstitutional'.
TMC has vehemently opposed the 'unconstitutional' bill in both the houses of the parliament. With MP Abhishek Banerjee in Lok Sabha saying that the party 'will fight till the last drop of blood but won't allow NRC' in the state.
The Ministry of External Affairs informed that both the sides have decided to defer the visit to a mutually convenient date in the near future.
Earlier on Thursday, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and the country's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan had also called off their respective visits to India.
According to the Act, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014, facing religious persecution there, will be given Indian citizenship.
Amid violent protests, PM Modi took to Twitter to assure the people of the state that they have nothing to worry adding that no one can take away their rights, identity and culture.
