The city of Albany, New York, on March 2 become the third U.S. city to pass a resolution denouncing the far-right Indian government's changes to citizenship laws that have drawn international condemnations alleging anti-Muslim bias.
The resolution, modeled after similar measures adopted last month in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Seattle, expresses solidarity with local South Asians and urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government to repeal its Citizenship Amendment Act and drop plans for a national citizenship registry.
City of Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota, passed a resolution on May 20, against India's National Registry of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act. Saint Paul city became the fourth city to pass such Resolution.
The City Council found the policies of these laws to be "discriminatory to Muslims, oppressed castes, women, indigenous peoples known as Adivasi, and the LGBTQ community, and any other efforts that render vulnerable populations anywhere to become stateless, scapegoated, and targeted for discrimination, violence, and the abrogation of human rights that are universal to one and all."
The City of Hamtramack in Michigan, passed a resolution on July 14, against discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act and proposed National Register of Citizens NRC by the Hindutav nationalist BJP govt. in India. Hamtramack is the fifth city council to pass resolution against the islamophobic Citizenship Amendment Act.
While opposing the CAA, the City Council accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Indian and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fostering "the exclusionary ideology of Rahstriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a nationalist organization, which promotes hate and discrimination against Muslims and other minorities".
The City of New Westminster (Canada) on July 13 passed a motion that called India's Citizenship Amendment Act "regressive" and "discriminatory" and asked the federal government to oppose it. It also called on the Canadian Parliament to support "the pluralist coexistence of all residents of India regardless of culture, religion or caste."
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