NEW DELHI – Indian government faces the worst international humiliationover the Controversial citizenship bill 2019 .
Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister (FM) AK Abdul Momen and Home MinisterAsaduzzaman Khan both cancelled their visit to India scheduled this weekafter the Indian government passed the controversial Citizenship AmendmentLaw on Wednesday.
The Bangladesh FM was scheduled to visit India on Thursday, however, hecanceled his three-day visit hours before his arrival, Indian mediareported. The home minister, who was scheduled to arrive on Friday, alsocalled off a trip to Meghalaya.
Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said hewould not like to comment on the issue beyond saying that New Delhi’srelationship with Dhaka was good.
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Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is alsoconsidering cancelling his trip to India scheduled to begin on Sunday,*Reuters* reported. The Indian city of Guwahati, the planned venue for asummit between the japanese PM and Indian PM Narendra Modi, has beenengulfed in violent protests over the controversial citizenship law.
Indian government introduced on Monday a controversial bill ‘CitizenshipAmendment Law’ in the parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslimminorities from three neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Pakistan andAfghanistan. This mean the law will create a legal pathway to grant Indiannationality on the basis of religion.
