CAA-NRC Finds Support Among People but Faultlines Exist

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Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: Deleng/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Issue No: 346 No: 6 Published from New Delhi & Hyderabad New Delhi, Sunday, December 22, 2019 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Price: 3.00 BJP CMs should have N.Korea slams US over Kuldeep Yadav one called for peace to avert remarks on human wicket away from 100 violence: Gehlot rights issues ODI wickets P-5 P-9 P-11 DEATH TOLL MOUNTS IN UP, BHIM ARMY CHIEF AZAD, 20 OTHERS ARRESTED FOR ARSON New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) the police which fi nally turned violent with dem- SO DOES TENSION The police on Saturday ar- managed to arrest him. onstrators setting a car on rested Bhim Army chief Speaking to the media fi re and damaging a few ve- Chandrashekhar Azad for on Friday, the Bhim Army hicles. The police resorted arson and rioting during a chief had said: to lathi-charge and used demonstration against the “Police have been at- water cannon. Citizenship Amendment tacking since morning... The police said Azad has Act in the national capital. we have not attacked them. been instigating the crowd Twenty other miscre- I have evidence to prove and had also called for an ants were also arrested for that the RSS has planned unlawful assembly which indulging in violence dur- this attack against us. We later ended up in arson ing protests on Friday.“We are continuing our protest and rioting. have arrested 21 miscre- in a peaceful manner”. The Seeampur demon- ants, including Bhim Army mob,” said a senior IPS of- around 1 p.m. and Azad On Friday, the protesters stration started on Friday chief Chandrashekhar fi cer.The police have ar- was present in the march. marched towards Jantar afternoon and when it end- Azad, for arson and riot- rested fi ve for violence in However, when the police Mantar from Jama Mas- ed during evening hours, ing, damage to public Seelampur and 16 from tried to detain him, his jid, but were stopped by a few miscreants indulged property, unlawful assem- Old Delhi near Delhi Gate. supporters took him away. the police and paramili- in violence and arson after bly and causing grievous The Bhim Army protest Thereafter, he had been tary personnel near Delhi police nabbed a few mis- hurt. Azad was leading the started after Friday prayers playing hide and seek with Gate. After this, the protest creants from the spot. Lucknow, Dec 21 (IANS) The death prised her of the situation in the broke out in Rampur during protests and fi red tear gas shells. One person toll in the violent protests against the state in the wake of protests against against the CAA on Saturday.Slo- was killed in the violence.Additional 73% Muslims feel CAA will hike Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) the CAA.State Director General of gan-shouting protesters engaged in Director General of Police Avinash in Uttar Pradesh has reportedly gone Police O.P. Singh said that nine per- stone-pelting and arson and clashed Chandra reached the spot and is population, economic burden up to 16 though offi cial sources only sons had died in cross fi ring though with the police in the violence that camping there to control the situa- claimed that nine deaths had taken the police had not fi red even a single continued for two hours, accord- tion.The violence erupted after the place.Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister bullet. “We used tear gas shells to ing to offi cials.As the protesters be- administration denied permission Yogi Adityanath on Saturday met disperse the mob,” he stated.One gan pelting stones at the police, the for a demonstration following a call Governor Anandiben Patel and ap- person was killed as fresh violence force responded with a baton charge for protest by Muslim clerics. Protests against CAA THOUSANDS in TN, Puducherry AT HYDERABAD slogans against the CAA. Similar protests by Mus- MEET TO lims were held in Nagapat- tinam, Arakkonam, Hosur and Myladuthurai.Several PROTEST CAA shops owned by Muslims Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Just over other survey question, 64 per cent were closed as a protest Thousands of people thronged 47 per cent of Indians feel that the In- of people felt that the new law will Chennai, Dec 21 (IANS) against CAA. the AIMIM headquarters 'Darus- dian Constitution had been violated increase the population in India and Protests against the Citi- In the state capital Chen- salam' here on Saturday night by the recently-passed Citizenship burden the economy, while 33.8 per zenship (Amendment) nai members of Left par- for the public meeting to protest Amendment Act but nearly the same cent people did not think this way Act were held by Muslims ties held a protest outside against the Citizenship Amend- number differs on this issue, accord- while 2.2 per cent of people did not in several places in Tamil the Central Railway Station AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP ment Act and the National Reg- ing to an IANS-CVoter survey. know or want to answer. Nadu on Saturday. against CAA.The Left par- Asaduddin Owaisi talk to the media ister of Citizens. As many as 47.1 per cent of people Meanwhile, in Assam, where 68.1 In Puducherry, Chief ties also led a procession during a meeting of religious scholars The meeting organized by across the country said that the law per cent of the people oppose the Minister V. Narayanasa- towards Raj Bhavan. and leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and United Muslim Action Com- was a violation of the Constitution CAA, 78.1 per cent people said they my said the amended law Speaking at an anti-CAA mittee, an umbrella of various of India while 47.4 per cent of people agreed with the possibility of popu- other Muslim groups regarding peaceful will not be implemented protest meeting in Puducherry, Muslim groups, began with the did not feel so while 5.5 percent of lation explosion due to the law while in the Union Territory.In Narayanasamy said even if the protests against the Citizenship national anthem. people did not know or did not want 18.9 per cent did not feel so. Madurai in Tamil Nadu, government is dismissed, the Amendment Act (CCA) 2019 and National All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul to comment. Among the communities, 73.3 per several hundred Muslims CAA will not be implemented Register of Citizens (NRC), at the party's Muslimeen (AIMIM) President The snap poll, carried out be- cent Muslim and 63.6 per cent Hin- held protest and shouted in the Union Territory. headquarters in Hyderabad. and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin tween December 17-19, has a dus believed that the measure will Owaisi and other leaders stood sample size of over 3,000 all over increase population and also burden on the dais while many among India plus a booster sample of 500 the economy, 22.3 per cent Muslims CAA-NRC finds support among the audience waved the national each in Assam, the northeast and and 34.2 per cent Hindus responded fl ag as the national anthem was among Muslims.In response to an- with no to this question. recited.The sprawling ground people but faultlines exist was fi lled to its capacity and the participants spilled over on to the surrounding roads to hear the speakers. Owaisi, religious scholars and leaders of various groups including the Jamaat-e-Islami will be addressing the meeting. Ladeeda Sakhaloon Farzana and Aysha Renna, the students of Jamia Millia Islamia, who became the face of anti-CAA protests, will also address the meeting, the biggest gathering in Hyderabad so far. Delhi's Jamia sees massive protests New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) After the promulgation of the more in north and west while New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) A frenzy over the Citizenship saying don't suppress but have been peaceful. Hundreds A snap poll done on the hot Citizenship Amendment Act lesser in the south and east huge crowd of protesters gath- (Amendment) Act. As students amend the law.Amren who is of students and residents gath- button issue of CAA-NRC by (CAA), there have been pan- while the northeast is divided. ered outside the Jamia Millia Is- joined residents at Jamia's gate pursuing B.Ed, said: "With CAA ered outside the Jamia campus IANS-CVoter has found that India protests leaving several Assam is completely different lamia on Saturday and swelled no 7, one of the carriageway was you want refugee from outside and carried out a march carry- several faultlines exist on a re- dead, and hundreds injured from the country with 68 per cent up within minutes into mega blocked and slogans like "We the country but you want to ex- ing the national fl ag. gional, state and religious ba- as a wave of agitations has hit people opposing it.Deshmukh rally shouting slogans "Modi- want justice" fi lled the area. clude the biggest minority from More and more people were sis on those supporting the act normal life.The snap poll has said that while there is under- Shah hosh mein aao, Hindu- At the frontline of the Jamia your own country -- which type seen gathering outside the Gate and those against it.Yashwant a sample size of over 3,000 all standing among the communi- Muslim mat karao" as the police protests are young women stu- of law is this." number 7 -- the Maulana Abul Deshmukh, Founder, CVoter over India plus a booster sam- ties that Bangladeshi migrants tried helplessly to maintain law dents, though behind 'naqab' Housewives and young chil- Kalam Azad Gate -- the main told IANS that while the major- ple of 500 each in Assam, the constitute a threat and are com- and order.
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