India’s citizenship law: what is it and why has it stirred such anger?

According to a poll, the majority of Indians do support the law. Most Muslims do not, but 35% do.

https://news.abplive.com/news/india/abp-cvoter-survey-on-cit... ABP-CVoter Survey On Citizenship Act: 62% Indians Support CAA, 65% Want Pan-India NRC Too New Delhi: In the wake of ongoing nationwide protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), ABP New along with C-Voter brings to you an exclusive survey to find out whether the newly introduced law is for the betterment of the country or not.

The snap poll was carried out on over 3,000 citizens across the country between December 17 to 19 with booster sample of over 500 people each in Assam, the northeast and Muslim community collected during the same period.

The survey stated majority of the people believe that the Citizenship Amendment Act introduced by the Central government is not against the Muslim community. According to the survey, 56 per cent people think that CAA is not against Muslim community and will only rule out illegal immigrants living in the country. However, 32 per cent of the participants feel that the law is against the Muslim community. 8 per cent people, in the survey, said that they do not know about the act, whereas 4 per cent said that CAA is against everyone.

The survey also revealed that among Muslims, 63 per cent were against the act, 35 supported it and 1 per cent said that they they don't know or cannot comment. In the Hindus, 67 per cent supported the Act and 32 per cent opposed it.