As protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which excludes Muslims, and the proposed Nation Register of Citizens, which aims to exclude most IDs that Indians consider proof of citizenship, rage across the country, Uttar Pradesh has come in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

India's most populous state is also home to about 4.5 crore Muslims. It is no surprise then that most of the ant-CAA protests of the past week have broken out in UP. There is genuine fear that the laws will reduce Muslims to second-class citizens, or worse, put them in detention centres.