Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today justified his government's crackdown on agitations against the Citizenship Amendment Act, saying that the action has "shocked" every protester into silence. "Every rioter is shocked. Every troublemaker is shocked. Everybody has fallen silent after seeing the strictness of the Yogi Adityanath government. The Chief Minister has announced that anybody who damages public property will have to pay up. Every violent protester will cry now because there is a Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh," read a tweet from his office.