'Are we a quasi-dictatorship': Ram Guha protests citizenship law, detained

Protests were held in Hubballi, Kalaburagi, Hassan, Mysuru and Ballary cities of Karnataka as Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa called for peace.

Historian Ramachandra Guha was detained by the police in Bengaluru on Thursday when tried to protest against the new citizenship law, as government authorities imposed curfew-like restrictions across India and shut down internet services in parts of the Delhi.

“Our paranoid rulers in Delhi are scared. Our Home Minister would not dare allow a peaceful protest,” Guha said after he was detained.

“Everyone should stand up, the entrepreneurs of Bangalore should stand up. Do they want this image to go around, that we are a quasi-dictatorship? We are here to assert our democratic rights,” he was quoted by Bloomberg as saying.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,