Anti-CAA protests spread across country as AASU forms human chain in Guwahati, stir in Amritsar and demonstration at 'Mumbai Bagh' enters eighth day

Anti-CAA protests spread across country as AASU forms human chain in Guwahati, stir in Amritsar and demonstration at 'Mumbai Bagh' enters eighth day

FP Staff February 3, 2020, 13:15:25 IST

Confusion and high drama had prevailed on Saturday at the sit-in demonstration being held by women against the CAA on Morland Road in Nagpada after a section of the protesters decided to call off the protest as the police told the volunteers to vacate the area saying they did not have permission for it.

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At least 60 artists from various parts of the country on Sunday vented their anger against CAA-NRC-NPR on canvas at Mumbra in Maharashtra’s Thane district. The protest was organised by the Joint Action Committee for Social Justice, the Secular Art Movement of Maharashtra, the Artist Rises for India and local activists in solidarity with the Shaheen Bagh protesters in Delhi. PTI

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A day after attempts were made by some groups to call off the anti-CAA protest at Nagpada in Mumbai, the stir, which has now come to be known as “Mumbai Bagh”, entered its eighth day on Sunday. The demonstration mostly consisted of women.

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Resistance against the contentious law spread across Punjab as people held placards and raised slogans during a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC), the National Population Register (NPR), in Amritsar on Sunday. PTI

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All Assam Students Union (AASU) activists formed a human chain to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Gauhati on Saturday. Around 2,000 people participated in the protest and blocked the area, shouting slogans against Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP. AP

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Elderly women during a demonstration against CAA, NRC and NPR at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on Saturday. The Shaheen Bagh protests are an ongoing sit-in peaceful demonstration, led by women, that began with the passage of the CAA in both houses of Parliament on 11 December, 2019. PTI

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