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2019-12-21 India-Pakistan
Nationwide protests against citizenship law continue; many booked
[HindustanTimes] Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC) continued even as festivities between police personnel and protestors intensified in different places across the country.

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC) continued to take on Friday, even as festivities between police personnel and protestors intensified in different places across the country.

In Madhya Pradesh, peaceful protests were held in many cities, including Ujjain, Damoh and Rajgarh, but violence broke out in parts of Jabalpur city due to which curfew was imposed by authorities. After the city’s Gohalpur and Hanumantal localities, parts of Kotwali and Adhartal were brought under curfew, Jabalpur District Collector Bharat Yadav said.

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Mobile Internet services remain suspended till noon on Saturday in Jabalpur, Bhopal and Indore, after protesters pelted stones at police in Jabalpur, surrounding a policeman and breaking the glass panes of a police vehicle. At least six personnel were maimed in the protests.

Tamil Nadu’s Chennai city police on Friday slapped cases against 3,637 persons protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Chennai on Thursday at Valluvar Kottam defying prohibitory orders. Among those booked include renowned Carnatic singer TM Krishna, actor Siddharth and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) president and Chidambaram LS constituency Parliamentarian Thol Thirumavalavan.

TM Krishna had slammed the Centre for "trying to divide the nation in the name of religion." Other leaders who were booked also made speeches critical of the CAA and NRC.

The police also booked Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) leader MH Jawahirullah for attempting to picket chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s house on Wednesday together with 3000 party workers. Around 37 students of Periyar Student’s Forum were booked for blocking a road during an agitation in Nungambakkam on Friday. Several student associations from educational institutions, including Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Loyola College and Madras University, as well as civil society groups, have come out to protest the police violence against students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Moslem University, in the past week.

Several parts of Coimbatore and Tirunelveli districts shut down to protest the CAA. About 1,500 shops were closed in Melapalayam in Tirunelveli. In Coimbatore district, shops were shut in Kuniyamuthur, Kottaimedu and Karumpukkadai areas. Several protests broke out in Anna Nagar and Chepauk in Chennai and Vaniyambadi in Vellore.

In Odisha, aver a hundred students staged a demonstration, alleging that the legislation is discriminatory to the citizens of different religions. The protesters displayed several placards, questioning provisions of the new law. "If India is not secular, it is not India," a placard read.

The Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
 government on Friday imposed Section 144, which prohibits an assembly of more than 4 people in an area, in Rajkot till January 1, 2020. "Section 144 imposed in Rajkot till January 1, 2020," District administration said.

The said section has been imposed in view of the ongoing anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in several parts of the state. Earlier in the day, Gujarat Police registered an FIR against 3,022 people on the charges of rioting, assault and criminal conspiracy for protesting against the newly-amended citizenship law in Banaskantha district.

The action was taken after scores of people staged protest against the CAA in the district on Thursday.

STATE GOVERNMENTS RESPOND
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
 possibly as a fallout to the nation-wide protests, at least eight states have come out against applying the CAA. Rajasthan along with at least seven other states, including the NDA-ruled Bihar, will not implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, said Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday.

Gehlot said more than eight states including Rajasthan, West Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, Kerala, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh would not implement the amended Citizenship Act. "I have said several times that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and NRC cannot be implemented across the country because they are not practical. Despite the resistance and suggestion by opposition parties, CAB became an act but why students and youths of all communities have come on roads ?" Gehlot tweeted.

The Kerala government on Friday said it has ordered a stay on all activities in connection with the National Population Register (NPR) in the state considering ’apprehensions’ of public that it would lead to NRC in the wake of the controversial citizenship act.

The order issued by the Kerala Principal Secretary (General Administration) said: "Considering that the apprehensions among the general public that the conduct of NPR related activities leads to NRC in the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act-2019, the state government orders to stay all the activities connected with the updation of National Population Register in the state forthwith."

Earlier this week, the West Bengal government stayed all activities relating to the preparation and updation of the NPR in the eastern state amid the furore over the CAA.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-21 02:03|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 Six muslim/commie leeches shot dead till now. The tougher task is keeping the right wing militia contained. If let go... the bigwigs are afraid it would be a bloodbath and everybody from Islamabad to Washington would cry 'murder!'

The police are handling it fine for now. Army and SF are on stand by, though busy on the northern front.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 02:23||   2019-12-21 02:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I confess I haven't been keeping up on this. What does the CAA do that has so many knickers in a knot?
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-21 05:44||   2019-12-21 05:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Everyone crossing over illegally into India has ever remained an illegal. There are some 30k families that escaped islamic regimes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh and made it to India, but live as refugees and illegals. Christians, hindus, atheists, buddhists, sikhs... The legislation was prompted by humanitarian concern for them to grant them citizenship. It became the CAA.

The Citizenship Amendment Act ensures that people persecuted under islamic regimes will find asylum and citizenship in India. It also implies that any muslim illegals in India will remain illegals. Which is what the ruckus is about. We decided that hindus, christians, sikhs and buddhists have no country to escape to, and India has no problem having them. We excluded muslims from the list of accepted immigrants because it's only for persecuted minorities' from three very radical islamist shitholes.

The marxists and islamists are now worried that the non-muslim vote base will swell, perpetuating a Right wing State. The ones backing this rioting are leftist political parties, pakistan Jamaat backed imaams and globalists seeking to have others cripple themselves with islamization.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 06:03||   2019-12-21 06:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanx, D.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-21 06:14||   2019-12-21 06:14|| Front Page Top

#5 many booked

With a phone book, hopefully.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-21 06:45||   2019-12-21 06:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I once upped a vid of a real police interrogation of a kashmiri protester, but even the tough TW said it was just too much.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 06:58||   2019-12-21 06:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I once upped a vid of a real police interrogation of a kashmiri protester, but even the tough TW said it was just too much.

That's because the first rule of Police / Kashmiri Interrogation Club is that we don't talk about Police / Kashmiri Interrogation Club...
Posted by Raj 2019-12-21 08:49||   2019-12-21 08:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm having this weird fantasy where the entire muslim/commie population of India gets thrown in jail and everyone lives happily ever after.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-21 10:48||   2019-12-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Tough? That’s a new one for me. Separately, attention to these riots has pretty much replaced fussing over Kashmir, where I assume behaviour modification is quietly proceeding apace.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-21 11:24||   2019-12-21 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ ☺
That's 14% of the pop, besides 8% of those are really moderate. Nearly atheists and multicultural types. Rich, educated, unable to give a shit for shariah.

The problem is an influx of wahabist south Indian muslims from soddy Arabia, Pak funded masjids paid by hawala, immigrant bangladeshi imaams. The riff raff and student unions are just the fodder. The lynchpins are our real targets. They mesh with communists for convenience and manpower, use the marxist academia, media and lawyers for lawfare and are guided by many of the same institutions with doctrines common to western liberals. Once we have taken away the lawfaring power of these bastards, declaring most enablers as terrorist and maoist groups, the riff-raff can be effectively hunted down. We shall also find half of them won't be our citizens.

One important development in these riots was, the chief minister of northern state most affected by violence has initiated a 'reparation directive'. Because arsonists and rioters have been clearly identified through footage, the administration shall attach their capital assets, or those of their parents and auction them off to pay for damages.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 11:26||   2019-12-21 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 The army has been on alert for infiltration, TW ; besides some artillery and stuff moving up for an 'in case'. The larger objective, liberation of Balochistan, retaking of POK is what all this multi-pronged containment of islam is solidifying into.

There's been no other gummint quite like this one. Modi is like Bibi on steroids. And his lieutenant Mr. Shah is like an indifferent stone Buddha that if it falls on you, no prayers will save you. With a dandy fop in the 'Stain, now is the time, and these are the people who can get it done.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 11:46||   2019-12-21 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Make it happen.

What are the odds in your view Dron that, after re-election next November the Trump admin would reevaluate our Pakistan relationship SS?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 11:51||   2019-12-21 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 The army has been on alert for infiltration, TW

Good. One does worry so about one’s friends when things are unsettled, even if they are willing to be the meanest sonuvabitch in the valley. If that means the Land of the Pure has to give up a few acres by way of natural consequences, I shan’t pine.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-21 17:08||   2019-12-21 17:08|| Front Page Top

#14 But if the Land of the Cedar has to give up a few trees, it will shat pine.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:20||   2019-12-21 19:20|| Front Page Top

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