India prime minister addresses rally as protest deaths climb.
Policemen guard near a statue of Bhim Rao Ambedkar in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Violent protests against India's citizenship law that excludes Muslim immigrants have swept the country over the weekend despite the government's ban on public assembly and suspension of internet services in many parts. Police said nine people died in clashes with security forces in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, most of them young protesters.
Authorities across the country have scrambled to contain the situation, banning public gatherings under Section 144, a British colonial-era law, and blocking internet access. India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued an advisory Friday night asking broadcasters across the country to refrain from using content that could inflame further violence.
Modi took the stage at a rally in the capital launching his Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign for New Delhi legislative assembly“People who are trying to spread lies and fear, look at my work. If you see any trace of divisiveness in my work, show it to the world,” he said. Critics have slammed the legislation as a violation of India's secular constitution and have called it the latest effort by Modi's government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims.
"First, we will bring the Citizenship Amendment Bill and will give citizenship to the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Christian refugees, the religious minorities from the neighboring nations. Then, we will implement NRC to flush out the infiltrators from our country," Shah said in anOn Sunday, Modi denied the existence of a detention center, accusing the Congress party of spreading fear that Indian Muslims would be jailed there.
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