In a hard-hitting interview to The Quint, Indian-origin Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has slammed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which was passed by Parliament late on 11 December.

Ramakrishnan, who had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, described the CAB as a dangerous piece of legislation that goes against the Constitution, and serves to “distract from the very hard task of making progress on education, technology and general economic advancement.”