BJP-MP Tejasvi Surya has been criticized for commenting at a rally in support of the citizenship-law that only "puncture-wallahs" and the illiterate were opposing it. The young Bengaluru South MP made the remarks to loud cheers at the Town-Hall in Bengaluru on Sunday. Protests have raged across India against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, which, for the first-time makes religion the test of citizenship in India.