{"id":12373,"date":"2019-12-22T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/22\/narendra-modi-defends-contentious-citizenship-law-as-clashes-continue-india"},"modified":"2019-12-22T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:59:47","slug":"narendra-modi-defends-contentious-citizenship-law-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12373","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi defends contentious citizenship law amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM denies law is anti-Muslim as police clash with demonstrators across India<\/p>\n<p>Clashes have continued between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, used a rally for his Hindu nationalist party to defend the legislation, accusing the opposition of pushing the country into a \u201cfear psychosis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three people have been killed nationwide since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/india-to-bring-in-law-denying-citizenship-to-muslim-migrants\">the law was passed in <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/11\/india-to-bring-in-law-denying-citizenship-to-muslim-migrants\">parliament<\/a> earlier this month in protests that represent the first major roadblock for Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist agenda since his party\u2019s landslide re-election last spring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/22\/narendra-modi-defends-contentious-citizenship-law-as-clashes-continue-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM denies law is anti-Muslim as police clash with demonstrators across IndiaClashes have continued between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, used a rally for his H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[516,62,447,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}