"From Democracy To Dictatorship": Derek O'Brien Slams Citizenship Bill | Read

Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien delivered an impassioned speech on the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill today, warning the Rajya Sabha the country was "moving from a democracy to a dictatorship". In his address Mr O'Brien invoked images from Nazi Germany and compared them to the Citizenship Bill and the NRC, starting with an "eerie similarity" between the infamous concentration camps of the time and detention camps in North East India today that house lakhs of people, including those excluded from the contentious National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise carried out earlier this year.