India on Saturday deployed troops to end the deadly protests that the state of West Bengal has broken so that they can change the method of managing Muslim -owned properties.
Police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters gathered on Friday in Murshidabad district of the state. Police said three people, including a child, were killed on Saturday.
“So far, 118 people have been arrested in connection with the violence,” he added, adding that at least 15 police officers were injured, a senior state police official said.
The state High Court ordered the deployment of federal troops. The dedicated amendment bill that launched the protest was approved after a heated debate earlier this month.
According to the ruling Hindu nationalist government, it will promote transparency around the land management by conducting powerful dedicated boards, which control the property given by Muslim charities.
But the opposition has called the bill a “attack” on the Muslim minority of India. He accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to win the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with his right -wing Hindu base.
After the passage of the bill, Modi called it a “water shed moment”. Meanwhile, the opposition Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi said that the purpose of the bill is “the purpose of Muslims today but it offers an example of targeting other communities in the future”.
As a premiere, Modi’s decade has seen him cultivating an image as an aggressive champion of the country’s majority Hindu faith.
His government revoked the constitutional sovereignty of Kashmir’s Muslim -majority region of India, and supported the construction of a temple at a place where a mosque was standing for centuries before the Hindu Zilotis broke it in 1992.
