Protests escalate across nation against Citizenship Amendment Act

Описание: Protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act led to major violence across the entire country.
Thursday witnessed multiple protest rallies in the national capital and in cities across India.
Violence broke out in Lucknow's old city area, a sensitive zone where police were deployed in heavy numbers following the ruckus. Protesters went on a rampage, pelting stones at the police, setting vehicles on fire and ransacking police outpost.
Meanwhile, The Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana in outer Delhi has been turned into a makeshift jail to keep anti-CAA protesters who have been detained. The ongoing anti-CAA protest in the national capital have disrupted normal life as 18 Metro stations have been closed and there is heavy traffic in many areas.
The anti-CAA protests continued to get bigger in Bengaluru as hundreds of people marched towards Town Hall, the place from where historian Ramchandra Guha was detained.
In Hyderabad, too, anti-CAA protesters were detained early morning. Students from Hyderabad Central University who were planning to join a march against CAA were detained by police this morning. Close to 100 students were taken to Moinabad Police Station.
Members of Left wing student organisations squatted on the tracks disrupting movement of trains while activists of another outfit vandalised an ambulance and burnt tyres during a bandh called by Left parties in Bihar. In Patna, activists belonging to pro-Left student bodies like AISF and AISA stormed the Rajendra Nagar Terminus and squatted on the tracks disrupting movement of trains.

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