{"id":12361,"date":"2019-12-22T03:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/citizenship-act-tushar-gandhi-great-grandson-india-muslim-infiltrators-backlash"},"modified":"2019-12-22T03:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:34:22","slug":"gandhis-great-grandson-joins-wave-of-protest-at-law-isolating-indias-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi\u2019s great-grandson joins wave of protest at law isolating India\u2019s Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new Citizenship Act risks defining Muslims as \u2018infiltrators\u2019, Tushar Arun Gandhi lends support to the backlash<\/p>\n<p>Last week 25,000 protesters gathered in Mewat, in the Indian state of Haryana, to begin the historic five-mile walk to Ghasera village. It was here, 72 years ago, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mahatma-gandhi\" title=\"\">Mahatma Gandhi<\/a> made the same journey during the turmoil of partition, visiting the area with the promise of a dignified life for local Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>While millions have retraced Gandhi\u2019s steps before, this time felt different. Against the backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/17\/the-guardian-view-on-modis-citizenship-law-dangerous-for-all\" title=\"\">a new Citizenship (Amendment) Act<\/a> (CAA) passed by the Indian parliament last week, which many believe is openly discriminatory against Muslims and relegates them to second-class citizens, honouring Gandhi\u2019s words of religious harmony and reconciliation felt like a powerful political statement. \u201cMewat has witnessed many protests, but this is the biggest in our life,\u201d resident Shahzad Khan told local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/citizenship-act-tushar-gandhi-great-grandson-india-muslim-infiltrators-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new Citizenship Act risks defining Muslims as \u2018infiltrators\u2019, Tushar Arun Gandhi lends support to the backlashLast week 25,000 protesters gathered in Mewat, in the Indian state of Haryana, to begin the historic five-mile walk to Ghasera village&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,447,831,433,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islam","category-mahatma-gandhi","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}