MAMOUDZOU: French authorities on Sunday announced a controversial plan to amend the Constitution to revoke birthright citizenship on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, which has been struggling with social unrest and a crippling migration crisis.

The proposal risks to further ramp up tensions in France following the adoption of a tough new law on immigration, with the left denouncing the fresh plan as another attack on France`s centuries-old values.

The reform was announced by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who arrived on the island, the country`s poorest department, on Sunday following three weeks of protests there.

In Mayotte`s capital Mamoudzou, several hundred protesters greeted Darmanin and his entourage with boos and shouts of `Mayotte is angry`.

Mayotte is composed of two islands that voted to stay part of France in 1973, while the others in the surrounding Muslim-majority archipelago sought independence, becoming the Comoros Islands.-AFP