Specialists alerted a U.S. federal government panel on Wednesday that Muslims in India face dangers of expulsion or other persecution under a citizenship law that has actually activated major demonstrations.
The hearing held inside Congress was called by the U.S. Commission on International Freedom
Ashutosh Varshney, a popular scholar of sectarian violence in India, informed the panel that the law promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalists totaled up to a transfer to narrow the democracy’s historically inclusive and secular definition of citizenship.
” The hazard is severe, and the implications rather horrendous,” said Mr. Varshney, a teacher at Brown University.
” Something deeply injurious to the Muslim minority can happen as soon as their citizenship rights are taken away,” he stated.
Mr. Varshney warned that the l