PM Modi asks students to see whether others using their "shoulders to fire"

New Delhi, Dec 18: Amid the ongoing tension across the country over the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to mitigate the concern of Indians agitation over getting stripped of their citizenship.

The protest in Northeast states have calmed down, but violence is still continuing in West Bengal and the national capital.

Union Home minister Amit Shah has directed the Delhi police to maintain peace it the capital.

PM Modi has asked the students who have started the agitation condemning the CAA to try and view whether they were not being made the scapegoats. He asked the students to check whether they are being put into the "conspiracy" where the "urban naxals" and others were using their "shoulders to fire" to serve their own interests.

The situation is becoming worse day by day over the CAA.

Agitation that has turned into violence in many parts of the country, in Kolkata, Howrah bomb was hurled on police where a top cop was injured, railway stations were set ablaze, vehicles were vandalised, and stone pelted at police all these incident of violence was reported from many parts of the country, in the national capital campus violence in Jamia has boiled up the situation more, triggering fresh clash in Aligarh, Mau area of Uttar Pradesh. Today's Seelampur violence also added to the list where many buses and public property was vandalised.

The Jamia violence led to other university protests across the country. Students in various university showed solidarity and have condemned the crackdown of police inside the Jamia Millia Islamia university.

Meanwhile, police have nabbed several people who were adding fuel to this agitation, some are also sent for police remand. A huge police force has been deployed in all the tensed areas. In some places, internet services are still suspended.