Authorities had deployed policemen in full strength at the places to disallow the protesters from forming human chains.

Protests against the controversial new citizenship law were triggered late last year when India's upper house of parliament passed the law. Since then there has been no let-up in the protests.

The law aims at granting citizenship to illegal immigrants belonging to six religions - Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parsi and Christianity - from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Opposition parties and civil society members in India criticize the law as contrary to secular principles enshrined in India's constitution as it excludes Muslims.

So far, the violence against the law has killed at least 29 people across India.

Until now four Indian states have passed resolutions in their respective lawmaking bodies against the controversial law.

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