United Nations ,(thestates.news) Human Rights Watch
Executive Director Kenneth Roth said the organisation is deeply concerned about
the anti-Muslim policies enforced by PM Narendra Modi’s administration.
“We are extremely concerned about the anti-Muslim drift of the Modi
government exemplified by his actions in Kashmir, his actions in Assam and now
most recently this discriminatory Muslim citizenship law,” Roth said on
Tuesday.
In December, the Parliament passed a bill amending the 1955 Indian nationality
law and fast-tracking citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis,
and Christians who had fled from neighbouring Muslim-majority countries before
December 2014, while Muslims themselves were excluded.
In August, the government announced its decision to strip India’s only
Muslim-majority state Jammu and Kashmir of its special status and split it into
two union territories. (UNI)
Extremely’ concerned by Modi’s anti-Muslim drift: UN Exec Dir
