Assamese community members staged a protest on Wednesday in Pune against the Citizenship Act, claiming it endangers the culture of Assam and ignores sentiments of people of the north-eastern state.
Several people also participated in a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Act in Mumbra, a predominantly Muslim township near Mumbai.
A protest march was also undertaken in Carter Road area of Bandra in Mumbai.
In Pune, over 200 members of the Assamese community, mostly students and working professionals from the north- eastern state, gathered outside the Sambhaji Garden and staged a protest against the Act.
Bidyut Saikia, a protester, said, "We oppose this new law and the government has enacted it without considering sentiments of the people and the harmony of the multi-communal state of Assam."
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