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Citizenship Amendment Act

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AMU: FIR against Dr Kafeel Khan for provocative AMU speech on CAA and NRC

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

Kafeel Khan was booked under section 153-A on the 13th of December for his speech in Aligarh which was allegedly provocative and an attempt to vitiate the atmosphere and spread communal disharmony.

Social Media Fact-Check

Read why “facts” about CAA and NRC shared by Farhan Akhtar are all false or misleading

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

Shockingly, the parts of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Aksai Chin are also missing from the Indian map in the infographic posted by Farhan Akhtar.

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Kerala: SFI goons brutally thrash ABVP workers trying to conduct a seminar on CAA

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

Each day it's becoming clearer that these so-called ‘student movement’ against CAA is actually a well planned and coordinated effort to fan communal violence.

Politics

Tamil Nadu: AIADMK MP Mohammed John gets expelled from Jamat Federation for voting in favour of CAB in parliament

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

The decision to remove him from the post was taken reportedly after Jamaat across the state and the local Muslim community in Ranipet had put pressure following his vote in support of the CAB.

Crime

Jamia students joined rioters, former Congress MLA Asif Khan named: Read details of FIR filed in Jamia anti-CAA riot case

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

The Delhi Police has also named former Congress MLA Asif Khan as one of the accused in its FIR. Six people including four local politicians and the former Congress MLA have been named as suspects in the Delhi Police FIR.

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Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid appeals to anti-CAA rioters to ‘protest in control’, Islamic fundamentalists call him a ‘fool’

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in New Delhi tried to clear air on the CAA and NRC and appealed to anti-CAA rioters to maintain peace.

Politics

When protests take a violent form then it is the responsibility of the police to intervene and restore peace: Amit Shah on anti-CAA riots

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2019

Narendra Modi government was correcting the historical wrong, said Amit Shah defending the CAA. He added that had the Congress not agreed to divide the country over religious lines, this situation would never have come.

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