Women take part in anti-CAA protest

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Women take part in anti-CAA protest

Sunday, 19 January 2020 | PNS | Lucknow

Muslim women in large numbers participated in an indefinite protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act at the historical Hussainabad Clock Tower in Old City area of Lucknow.

The protest has been organised on the lines of Shaheen Bagh in Delhi and Roshan Bagh in Prayagraj.

The protesters are demanding withdrawal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Population Register and National Register of Citizens.

On Saturday, women protesters waving the national flag and holding placards, raised slogan of Bharat Mata Ki Jai.  The protest started after Friday prayers and by the evening, the number of protesters swelled.

Police were deployed to prevent any untoward incident and the protesters were prevented from lighting bonfires.

On Friday night, the protesters switched on the flashlight of their mobile phones and chanted Ram Prasad Bismil’s poem ‘Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab humare dil mein hai, dekhna hai kitna zor bazue qatil mein hain’ (The desire for revolution is in our hearts, let us see how much strength is in the arms of the enemy) and inquilab zindabad.

Children held charts and placards that read ‘Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isai, aapas mein sab bhai bhai’ (Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians are all brothers) and ‘No to citizenship based on religion’.

Speaking to the media on Saturday, an activist and student union leader Pooja Shukla said that the protest started around 12 noon with just a handful of men and women. She said as the numbers swelled, police were deployed after which the women asked the men to leave as they did not want any confrontation.

‘’At midnight, all lights were switched off. Public toilets in the area were locked. But through the night, people kept coming with blankets and food and offered us their toilets to use. We spent the night holding candles. You will find people of different political ideologies here. This is a people’s movement and a new leadership will emerge,’’ she said.

The protesters felt that the CAA had been brought to “attack” Muslim religious sentiments and the National Register of Citizens would again bring the people to queues.

‘’This law is an attempt to break the age-old cordial relations between Hindus and Muslims,’’ they claimed.

Meanwhile, UP Shia Central Waqf Board Chairman Wasim Rizvi alleged that Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad was behind the protest as he had rewarded the protesters handsomely.

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