India Tomorrow
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 16—The women protesters of Shaheen Bagh, who wanted to march on Sunday to the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, returned to their tent after they were not allowed by the police to march forward.
The women protesters had taken the initiative after Shah in TV interviews, after Delhi assembly poll results, said that he would always welcome Shaheen Bagh protesters to talk to them on Citizenship (Amendment) Act if they came to him.
Elderly women one of them 82-year-old referred to as ‘Dadi’ by media walked up to the police barricade and asked the policemen present if they had the orders to let them go to meet the home minister.
But they returned to the protest site when told that they had not been given permission. A police official told them that he would let them know as soon as he got any order home ministry in this regard.
Women protesters then mediapersons that they would wait for the permission from home ministry to meet Amit Shah. They said that even Amit Shah could come to the protest site and hold discussions with them.
Asked how long they would continue their protests, they replied, “Till our demand about withdrawal of CAA is not accepted by the government”. They said that National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) should also be taken back.
Anti-CAA protests that was launched by women from Shaheen Bagh has inspired thousands of women all over the country and protests are going on round the clock at over 150 places in the country. In Delhi alone, protests are going on at more than one dozen places, including Jamia, Khureji, Mustafabad, Seelampur, Jafrabad and Shastrinagar.
