(Source: Reuters)
Dubai: Microsoft Corp’s India-born Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said he was saddened by a new citizenship law based on religion that was recently implemented in his home country, BuzzFeed News reported on Monday.
“I think what is happening is sad, primarily as sort of someone who grew up there… I think it’s just bad,” Nadella told here BuzzFeed at a Microsoft event in Manhattan.
Nadella grew up in Hyderabad, a technology hub in India that is home to the biggest Microsoft research and development centre outside of the United States.
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which eases the path for non-Muslims in the neighbouring Muslim-majority nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to gain citizenship, has triggered weeks of sometimes violent protests in the world’s second-most populous country.
If combined with a proposed national register of citizens, critics of the CAA fear it will discriminate against India’s Muslim minority and chips away at its secular constitution.
The company’s India Twitter handle put out a statement quoting Nadella as saying he was shaped by “growing up in a multicultural India” and his “immigrant experience in the United States”.
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