Five foreign nationals were asked to leave India for participating in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union minister of state for Home, Nityanand Rai, told the Lok Sabha in a written reply on Tuesday.
\nHe said that the foreign nationals had violated their visa norms by participating in such protests. He was answering a question by a Congress MP and an MP of Indian Union Muslim League.<\/p>\n
The minister did not reveal the details of these five people. Four such cases have however surfaced in various media reports in the past.<\/p>\n
In February, two students from West Bengal were asked to leave the country. One of them is a Polish student from Jadavpur University and the other, a Bangladeshi student from Visva Bharati University.<\/p>\n
The Polish student, Kamil Siedcynski, allegedly attended an anti-CAA rally on December 19. He moved Calcutta High Court challenging the order. The case is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Bangladeshi student, Afsara Anika Meem, was accused of posting pictures of CAA protests on her social media account. One of her friends claimed that she was trolled as being \u201canti-national\u201d after posting the pictures and the trolls demanded that she should be sent back to her country.<\/p>\n
In December, a German exchange student at IIT-Madras, Jakob Lindenthal, was sent back to his country after participating in anti-CAA protest in Chennai. His visa was also revoked. He was allegedly seen carrying a poster during the protest.<\/p>\n
A Norwegian woman Janne-Mette Johansson, aged 74 years, was asked to leave India for taking part in anti-CAA protests in Kochi.<\/p>\n
The CAA which seeks to give citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring countries has been criticised as discriminatory and witnessed large scale protests across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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