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Across India, Opposition Building Against Citizenship Law

Associated Press

   NEW DELHI - 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 against
   a new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally
   to flee religious persecution in neighboring countries.

   The protests in New Delhi followed a night of violent clashes between
   police and demonstrators at Jamia Millia Islamia University. People who
   student organizers said were not students set three buses on fire and
   police stormed the university library, firing tear gas at students
   crouched under desks.

   Members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist
   Bharatiya Janata Party said opposition parties were using the students
   as pawns.

   Modi's government says the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was
   approved by Parliament last week, will make India a safe haven for
   Hindus and other religious minorities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh,
   Pakistan and Afghanistan. But critics say the legislation, which for
   the first time conditions Indian citizenship on religion, violates the
   secular constitution of the world's largest democracy.