3 9 $ 3:;"< # ";"< < RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 .%& 01 2 . $ #) 3 ()*+, /%012 $%-. -+&*+!4 )+ !, *'(%+&)6 )& 7+!) ++ ')(+ + *+!(+ (, (-(!!(+5) +)&((4, *( !+ !!) !" !"#$ # % & ''!'()*+ ,8 $ %'( $) ! " #$ in heavy brickbatting, leading P Q to injuries to many people including policemen. Police used canecharge and tear gas L L !" to chase them away. Clashes were also reported from Rampur district. ! " Samajwadi Party MLA # Amitabh Bajpai and former $ & ' MLA and SP leader Kamlesh ( Tewari have been arrested as a precautionary measure and their vehicles have also been seized. On the composition of ) + , ,, protesters, the UP DGP said, “I ! - ) myself saw women and young ) girls present during protests at ) .+ /( Parivartan Chowk in Lucknow 0012034 and asked them to go. A child ' died in a stampede in Varanasi )+( + ! , where children were present 4 + with the protesters when police % ( 4 5 lathi charged them. These chil- % %&' ' ) )+( 1206 dren do not know what citi- zenship is and they were pre- ))%*+ in all districts of the State since + 7 + ' sent with the crack of dawn, unfazed by stones.” fter Uttar Pradesh, it was the winter fog and chilly 4 ! $ %&' ABihar’s turn to witness winds. They sat down on rail- ' 8 9( large-scale vandalism and dis- way tracks and blocked bus 7 % &'( protesters. “Women and chil- families of those who were %& ruption of rail and road traf- terminuses at various )+( dren were used as shields by the killed in violence that fic on Saturday. Rashtriya places to enforce the day-long ' " he death toll in continuing protesters. If anyone died due broke out during the protest in Janata Dal (RJD) supporters bandh. Tclashes during protests in to our fire we will conduct a Lucknow. ! blocked roads and disrupted In Patna, the protesters Uttar Pradesh against the judicial enquiry and take The Home Department movement of trains at differ- reached Dak Bungalow + ! ,4 Citizenship (Amendment) Act action. But nothing happened extended internet restrictions %'! ent places in the State during “chowraha” (intersection) and : 8 (CAA) rose to 15, including an from our side,” the DGP said. till Monday noon in 15 districts the “Bihar Bandh” call given by blocked traffic while raising ,)+( + + Q# eight-year-old, on Saturday IG (Law and Order) of Lucknow, Saharanpur, New Delhi: On a day when it against the Citizenship anti-Government slogans. The 7 " ( even as violence erupted in Praveen Kumar said over 260 Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Agra, Prime Minister Narendra (Amendment) Act (CAA) and supporters also pelted stones at ; Rampur and Kanpur. The Yogi policemen were also injured, of Aligarh, Bareilly, Mau, Modi is all set to address a rally National Register for Citizens Government buses, breaking " Adityanath Government, for its whom 57 received gunshot Azamgarh, Agra, Sambhal, in Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, (NRC). West Bengal, Assam glass windows. 8 part, initiated the process of wounds. “Since December 10, Kanpur, Unnao, Moradabad, the Congress will stage a silent and Meghalaya were relative- The protesters smashed 0< identifying those guilty of dam- when the protests erupted in and Prayagraj. In 12 other dis- protest (satyagrah dharna) at ly peaceful. windshields of taxis and three- !" = aging public property in the State, 705 people have been tricts where internet was Rajghat against the Citizenship Hundreds of RJD sup- wheelers and damaged cycle- ""#$ ( Lucknow and tasked four arrested and around 4,500 per- stopped, a decision to further Amendment Act (CAA) and porters — among whom chil- rickshaws that plied on the Upper District Magistrates with sons were released after pre- restrict the services would be National Register of Citizens dren of not more than 10-15 roads in defiance of the call for $ ## the disposal of cases related to ventive arrest. Fifteen casualties taken by respective District (NRC). Congress president years of age and some of the the shutdown in Bhagalpur, the losses. have happened,” he said. Magistrates. Sonia Gandhi along with agitators in their underwear — Muzaffarpur and outskirts of $ ) UP DGP, OP Singh, reiter- Politics over the CAA, The bandobast and UP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka could also be seen carrying Patna. " ated that the police did not however, continued with the CM’s renewed appeal for peace Gandhi Vadra and other senior bamboo sticks and party flags. Schools, colleges and most 7) open fire anywhere in the State Trinamool Congress announc- notwithstanding, protesters leaders will participate in the The bandh supporters gath- government offices remained and claimed all deaths were due ing the visit of a four-member set ablaze Yatimkhana police “satyagraha dharna” till the ered at bus stands, railway closed as it was a to cross-firing between the party delegation to meet the post in Kanpur and indulged evening. PNS tracks and other vantage points Saturday. ( 0< 8 > 8 # 7 8 , Q R , 7) + 7 -*(% P Q ( ))%*+ enior Congress party leader = =( SBanwari Lal Sharma died of Q5 7 s many as 1,100 academi- cancer on Saturday. He was the + 77& 7 Acians and research scholars legislator from Morena district 8 = from various universities across of Madhya Pradesh. rites will be performed in his ( 8 India and abroad as well as The 61-year-old legislator native village Jaap Thap on 7 " prominent persons released a from Jaura Assembly seat won Sunday. =( statement in support of the last year by defeating the Madhya Pradesh Assembly ' amended Citizenship Act on Bahujan Samaj Party candi- Speaker NP Prajapati, Deputy ))%*+ $ Saturday. date. Both Congress and Speaker Hina Kanware and The signatories to the state- Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Chief Minister Kamal nath he national Capital on 5 ment include Rajya Sabha leaders have mourned the have expressed profound grief TSaturday witnessed multiple member Swapan Dasgupta, death of Banwari Lal Sharma. over the demise. peaceful protests throughout : 8 8 IIM Shillong Chairman Shishir After the demise of Chief Minister Kamal the day. The situation in Old % ? Bajoria, Nalanda University Banwari Lal, the number of Nath will take part in the last Delhi and Seemapuri areas " ) ' ( % = 7 Vice-Chancellor Sunaina Congress MLAs in the Madhya rites of Jaora MLA Late which were hit by violence dur- 7 Singh, JNU professor Ainul Pradesh Assembly has come Banwari Lal Sharma on ing protests against the Citizen joined by women, Jamia took place in Daryaganj and ! 7 Hasan, Institute of Peace and down to 114 seats in the state December 22. Kamal Nath Amendment Act (CAA) saw alumni and local residents. Seemapuri areas. Police has Conflict Studies Senior Fellow legislative assembly election will reach Japthap, residence of heavy deployment of security Some protests against the arrested 16 people, including Abhijit Iyer-Mitra and jour- which the party won in 2018. Late Sharma at 3 pm from personnel in the area. CAA were also observed at Bhim Army chief Chandra 1203 nalist Kanchan Gupta. The body of Banwari Lal Delhi. Thousands of students of India Gate, Jantar Mantar Shekhar, in connection with 8 The statement comes in the will be kept at the MLA's The Chief Minister will Jamia Millia Islamia on and Rajgath. the violence that took place in midst of countrywide protests office so that the people can return to Bhopal the same Saturday staged a demon- The Delhi Police also Daryaganj on Friday evening against the new citizenship pay their last respects to the evening after taking part in the stration yet again outside the arrested 27 people in con- and 11 were arrested ,7 law. departing legislator. His last last rites of Late Sharma. campus. The protestors were nection with the violence that from Seemapuri. = : > ? 8 7 L ! " "#$ ; (5' ; ) ? L 7 ? Q !" " 8 8 *,)!- express an independent view ; on the basis of the evidence -*(% peaceful protest near a mosque According to the ) he Telangana High Court collected by them. in the Old City area. Citizenship Amendment Act, + !-) Ton Saturday directed the The bodies of the four senior Muslim cleric on While talking to media per- non-Muslim refugees, who State Government to hold a re- accused are currently pre- ASaturday appealed to people sons Nadvi said, “There was rest- came to India before December 7 postmortem on the bodies of served in the State-run Gandhi to maintain peace and not lessness among Muslims, espe- 31, 2014, to escape religious per- 7' : $ the four accused who were Hospital here as per earlier indulge in the acts that bring dis- cially youths, and secular peo- secution in Pakistan, Bangladesh > Q