India has suspended mobile Internet in Aligarh, a city in the Uttar Pradesh state, for at least six hours, according to NDTV , after violent clashes broke out between authorities and activists protesting a controversial citizenship law.
According to the publication, violence erupted when police clashed with people protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), in Aligarh’s Uparkot Kotwali neighbourhood, leading to stone-pelting, a shop being set ablaze, and a police officer’s bike burnt to the ground. Authorities, however, responded with baton-charging and relentlessly firing tear gas at the demonstrators. Police maintained that it was the protesters who had initiated the aggressive behaviour, the publication reported. It added that the city’s district magistrate, Chandra Bhushan Singh, said violence was brought under control and the mob dispersed. Will these protests lead to the overturning of the CAA? People’s voice is heard in democracy however India has proven many times now that it isn’t really a true democracy anymore. The people who’re protesting have started a big movement, but that’s what it is only. It’s only a movement. They’re vulnerable to police beatings and sedition charges. And the government Indian has right now doesn’t shies away from throwing sedition charges over anyone. This movement doesn’t has a legal standing and that is what is required to overturn CAA. Because the law regarding it has passed and it can only be tried in Supreme Court or Parliament.