INDIAN-BRITISH socialists demanded an end to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “tide of anti-Muslim acts” today as hundreds of students rallied in central London.

The call came in response to a law passed last week which grants citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from three of India’s neighbouring countries.

The Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) fast-tracks citizenship for almost every religious minority — except Muslims — from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

British-Indian diaspora group the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA) described the CAA as “undermining the basis of India’s secular democratic constitution.”

The law also parts with a historically tolerant India that had “never before introduced exceptions and exclusions based on faith,” the group said.

The IWA called for the “widest-possible solidarity with the people of India to stop this tide of anti-Muslim acts by the government enforcing their Hindu ideology.”

The CAA is widely regarded as being part of a campaign by the ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to push a Hindu-nationalist agenda at the expense of India’s Muslim minority.

It follows attacks on majority-Muslim states Jammu and Kashmir in August, when the Indian government stripped them of their autonomous status.

The passing of the act appears to be the final straw for India’s Muslim minority who have responded with widespread protests.

Students from SOAS London University, organised by South Asia Solidarity Group and SOAS India Society, rallied outside the Indian High Commission today in opposition to the CAA.

They say the act ”effectively introduces a religion test for citizenship” and described it as “alienating Indian Muslims” and “dividing communities.”