New Delhi:
Scores of women Congress workers led by president of the Delhi Pradesh Mahila Congress (DPMC) staged demonstration outside the residence of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The women Congress demonstrators shouted slogans against the BJP government at the Centre. Others who were part of the demonstration included DPMC vice-president Priyanka Singh, district president Amarlata Sangwan, Kamlesh Choudhary, Pushpa Singh, Indu Suri, Rajkumari Dillo, Praveena Sharma, All India Mahila Congress general-secretary Neetu Verma Soin, Nandita Hooda and Natasha Sharma.
The women Congress workers suddenly began assembling outside the residence of the Home Minister around 11 am. After half-an-hour of heated arguments with the police, women cops forcefully arrested the Congress protesters and took them to the Mandir Marg police station.
The Congress workers also started assembling outside the police station. Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhash Chopra cancelled all his programmes and rushed to the Mandir Marg police station. Chopra calmed down the angry women Congress workers, and after talking to senior officers, requested them to release the women Congress workers and leaders. Later they were released.
Sharmistha Mukherjee, however, said that the Modi government has been rattled by the students’ protest against CAA so much that a large police force did not allow the women Congress workers to hold a peaceful demonstration, which was their democratic right.
She said that the police high-handedness against the students was very deplorable. The constitution has given equal rights to all to raise their voice in protest, but the BJP government is trying to silence the voice of dissent.
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday joined the students protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and a proposed countrywide National Register of Citizens at the India Gate and said the government is “anti-poor”.
She said the government wants every Indian to stand in line to prove one’s citizenship in the same manner in which they did after note ban.
Scores of people gathered at India Gate here to voice their dissent against the new citizenship law and a proposed countrywide NRC.
Raising slogans of ‘Azaadi’, ‘No NRC, No CAA’, the protesters, most of them college students, demanded that the new law be repealed.
The national capital has witnessed a slew of protests against the amended citizenship law.
