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I want to ask what was the We will continue our protest till
need of such a bill at this time. the Citizenship Amendment
There is such widespread Act and NRC) are withdrawn.
unemployment and inflation in If you want to dismiss my
the country, people are crying government, you can, but I will
over jobs and goods getting never allow CAA in Bengal.
costlier. The nation needs to If they want to implement CAA,
look at these bigger problems they will have to do it
instead of such an issue over my dead body
— Arvind Kejriwal, — Mamata Banerjee,
Delhi Chief Minister West Bengal Chief Minister
amended citizenship law,”briefing the media DGP OP Students took out processions from Nadwa Col-
Singh said. The government has also directed district lege, a renowned center of Islamic studies, Lucknow
administration to keep vigil on social media and see amid mild scuffle and brick batting with local police.
no posts or rumorsinstigating communal passions Nadwa College students gathered in hundreds shout-
spoilingpeaceand harmony circulate in their areas. ing slogans like Awaz do, hum ek hain (call us we are all
Retaliatory protests in more than 16 univer- united). Police controlled the situation; notwithstand-
sities and IITs broke out against police atroci- ing they hurled stones at the police who pushed them
ties on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia and back inside the campus gate.
Aligarh Muslim University, who were demand- Lucknow police arrested district secretary of All
ing revocation of Citizenship Amendment Act. India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen(AIMIM) Aziz-
The agitation sparked at North campus of Delhi Ur-Rehmanfor bringing out procession on Citizenship
University in front of the Faculty of Social Science, Amendment Act near Ghantaghar under Husainabad
with several students reportedly deciding to boycott area of old Lucknow. Police is also in look out for other
exams and hold protests in solidarity with their coun- participants.
terparts in JMI and AMU. Trouble erupted there, when Angry protests were marked at Maulana Azad
armed members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi National Urdu University (MANUU) Hyderabad,
Parishad (ABVP) came with police cover and started Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Varanasi, Jadavpur
beating the protesters black and blue using batons. University, Kolkata, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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