Japanese PM postpones Indian visit to controversial anti-Muslim bill

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

New Delhi … News Time

The visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been postponed due to the uproar over the anti-Muslim citizenship bill in India. According to the International News Agency, the Japanese Prime Minister’s three-day visit to India has been postponed, the Japanese Prime Minister was to meet his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Guwahati, Assam’s largest commercial and developed city. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was to visit India on a three-day visit from December 15 to 17, but riots broke out over a controversial anti-Muslim bill in Guwahati. More than a dozen civilians were killed and hundreds injured. Things have not been able to be controlled despite the military calls. Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ravish Kumar wrote in a tweet on social networking site Twitter the three-day visit of the Japanese Prime Minister has been postponed following the mutual consultation and consensus of the officials of the two countries and a new date will be announced by consensus soon.

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