Kolkata’s Shaheen Bagh-Like Protest Enters 23rd Day, Gets Support From Artistes, Politicians
The protest at Kolkata’s Park Circus Maidan entered its 23rd day on Wednesday.
Kolkata:
A sit-in agitation through 60 Muslim ladies on the Park Circus Maidan, christened as ”Kolkata”s Shaheen Bagh”, entered its 23rd day on Wednesday with the protestors company to hold on with their stir towards the CAA indefinitely.
Exhibiting no indicators of fatigue, the ladies, starting from housewives to execs, expressed their choice to carry their flooring.
Parveen Nazir, probably the most 60 ladies and a homemaker, believes the most important power lies in the truth that the protestors don’t seem to be related to any political team.
“Our best id is that we’re Indians, and we’re ladies, who can’t be threatened through any power,” she stated.
Requested in regards to the claims of a BJP chief that the demonstrators at Park Circus Maidan and different venues around the town, protesting towards the brand new citizenship regulation, had been “infiltrators and now not Indians”, Ms Nazir stated, “We now have been residing right here for generations, taking part in Durga Puja celebrations with Hindus for ages.
“, we need to turn out that we’re Indian voters.”
Ms Nazir’s in-laws were living in Beniapukur space within the town for a number of generations.
Some other protester Nauseen Baba Khan, a PhD student, stated, “We can now not go away where until there’s a beneficial resolution in regards to our call for for scrapping of the Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA),” Mr Khan stated.
A policeman posted on the website stated, folks flip up in droves within the night time and songs and slogans hire the air.
Congress chief within the Lok Sabha Adhir Choudhury, former Union Minister P Chidambaram, CPI(M) chief Md Salim have visited the website lately.
Singers, theatre activists and social staff have additionally visited the website in previous few days.
