Govt using repression and violence to suppress protesters' voice: Priyanka Gandhi

Accusing the BJP government of being "bent upon using repression and violence" "to suppress the voice of people" protesting against changes in the citizenship law, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday said it was a "black day for democracy".

She also accused the government of seeking to harass the poor and deprived by replicating the situation of queuing them up in quest of identity proofs just as they had to line up before ATMs for their own money in the wake of demonetisation in November 2016.

The Congress general secretary, who has been personally participating in demonstration by students and people against the amended citizenship law and the proposed creation of a national register of citizens, alleged that police were inciting peaceful protestors all over the country and indulging in violence against them.

She also condemned the rampant arrest of protesters in the country.

"The NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act is against the fundamental spirit of the Constitution of India," she said in a statement in Hindi, adding "at no cost will an attack on Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitution be allowed."