DEHLI: A suspected Hindu nationalist opened fire at an anti-government protest in India’s capital on Saturday, police said, just days after an armed teenager shot and injured a student at a rally in the same city. The gunman fired into a large crowd of female demonstrators at a non-stop protest in New Delhi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s contentious citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims. “We have taken him into custody and recovered the weapon,” a police official told AFP. The back-to-back incidents come after a minister in Modi’s government, Anurag Thakur, called on crowds at a rally to “shoot the traitors” earlier this week. Several members of Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have termed the protesters “anti-national” and “traitors”.

Source: Pakistan Today February 01, 2020 16:18 UTC