The prevailing situation of India will be reviewed threadbare by the Home Minister Amit Shah in the meeting, the officials said
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah will chair an emergency meeting to review the security situation in the country on Thursday evening after violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, sources said. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy and Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla to attend the meeting.
The prevailing situation of India will be reviewed threadbare by the Home Minister Amit Shah in the meeting, the officials said.
Defying unprecedented prohibitory orders across regions, simultaneously agitation broke out on Thursday in all prominent cities against the new Citizenship Law, prompting authorities to detain a large number of activists and students and clamp down on mobile services in parts of Delhi and other states of India.
Meanwhile, the protests remained largely peaceful at most places with the agitators depending on slogans and placards to express their opposition to the new Citizenship law and what they called ‘barbaric police action’ against students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University, there were reports of violent clashes in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Karnataka, Rail and street traffic was hit across several states.
Barricades by police in and around Delhi, closing of Metro gates at several stations and an unprecedented suspension of mobile voice, messaging and internet services in parts of National Capital added to the distress.
Left party leaders Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Nilotpal Basu, and Brinda Karat, activist Yogendra Yadav and historian Ramchandra Guha were detained for taking part in the anti-citizenship law stir for defying prohibitory orders. Guha was later on released.
The new law has been amended to enable the grant fast citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan if they had to leave their respective nations due to religious persecution.
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