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Indian politician calls for protesters to be ‘shot like dogs’
Activists of All Assam Students Union and other indigenous organizations participate in a torch procession against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Gauhati, India, on Saturday

INDIA’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader for West Bengal Dilip Ghosh has threatened to shoot and jail people who protest against a discriminatory new citizenship law.

Mr Ghosh made the comments to members of the Hindu-chauvinist party on Sunday in a district of the state that borders Bangladesh, 90 per cent of whose population is Muslim.

The recent law, which provides a path to naturalisation for people from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan unless they are Muslim, has triggered a month of nationwide protests.

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