Welcome to the inquiry. I'm Charmaine Cozier. Each week one question, four expert

witnesses and an answer. Music from a sound system fills the space where a major road junction has been blocked off.

Children run around, Some are having their faces painted. It's one of the coldest

Decembers in more than a century. In the days and weeks that follow, hundreds of people arrive at this crossroads, mostly women of all ages.

Wrapped in brightly coloured blankets and sheltering under tents they sing, cheer and chant.

They come and go in shifts so it's busy day and night. The on-site

community kitchen provides a steady supply of tea and snacks and on some days

a biriani.

The songs being sung at this extended street festival are protest ones.

The faces are painted deep saffron white and

green the colours of the Indian flag. At the heart of this protest in Shaheenbach

South Delhi is a controversial new law.

The provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA offers amnesty to those who arrived in India illegally

from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in order to escape religious persecution.

But it excludes Muslims.

Critics believe it's part of a government agenda which will undermine the legal

status of tens of millions of people who follow the country's second most populous religion. So this week we're asking

could India's Muslims become second-class citizens.

Part 1, the Assam Connection.

Citizenship has always been a major issue in Assam.

Sima Mustafa is founder and editor of the Citizen, a digital newspaper. She says India has been worried about

illegal migrants for decades. The northeastern state of Assam borders Bangladesh, which was at war in

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