In perhaps the first of its kind protest staged against Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) in the country, thousands of people on Monday took out a 20 km-morcha against CAA in Buldhana district in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region.
The protesters walked a distance of 20 km from the taluka town of Motala to Buldhana, the district headquarters. The citizens, who participated in the morcha were from groups based in Waghjal and Rajur in Motala, landed at Buldhana’s Shaheen Bagh.
Later on, a delegation of citizens who participated in the morcha, handed over a memorandum to the Buldhana district collector. In their memorandum, the protesting citizens said that CAA posed a threat the very tents of the Constitution and it needed to be annulled forthwith. “In india where people from religions and castes live together, CAA pits people from one section of people against the other.
Speakers at the rally said that there was nothing wrong in according Indian citizenship to persecuted people in other countries, but CAA should not cause any harm to the Indian citizens
