As Violence Over Citizenship Breaks Out Trump Praises Religious Freedom In India

As Donald Trump completed his two day visit to India he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fostering religious freedom in the country while a short distance away riots were taking place and people were dying protesting the Citizen Amendment Act past by the Indian Parliament on 11 December 2020. 

 The act grants the right to refugee status for all religious minorities except Muslims.  Modi's  Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is a nationalist Hindu party which has a history of anti Muslim discrimination and violence.  Narendra Modi was First Minister of Gujarat in 2002 when a wave of inter sectional violence swept the state.  Modi was accused of inciting the violence against the sates Muslim minority.  Because of that, Modi  was denied visas to inter the U.S.   

In North-east Delhi on Day 3, violence spread and clashes broke out in new areas. Journalists were targeted, property damaged. The death toll rose to 13. And, after two days of failing to control the violence, police managed to clear some areas.

Around 7pm on Tuesday, a large posse of security personnel marched towards Chand Bagh, a Muslim-dominated locality in north-east Delhi, as reports of violence reached their wireless sets. In another half-hour, an armed mob gathered near a petrol pump in Gokalpuri and torched two vehicles, forcing the police to send a fresh deployment in the neighbourhood, less than 2km from Chand Bagh.

It continued over 24 hours as the violence spread from the Main Jafrabad Road and localities in vicinity to the large maze of narrow interconnected lanes across north-east Delhi in the last 24 hours.