{"id":318414,"date":"2019-12-31T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318414"},"modified":"2019-12-31T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:58:56","slug":"silent-protest-march-against-caa-nrc-in-navi-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/silent-protest-march-against-caa-nrc-in-navi-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Protest March against CAA, NRC in Navi Mumbai\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/silent-protest-march-against-caa-nrc-in-navi-mumbai\/protest-navi-mumbai\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318415\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-318415 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-1024x694.png 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-696x472.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-1068x724.png 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai-620x420.png 620w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/protest-navi-mumbai.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a>Political parties, social organizations and religious groups from Navi Mumbai were at Shivaji chowk on Tuesday to protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). A silent March was taken out from Vashi Station to Shivaji Chowk to protest against the\u00a0CAA and NRC .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Many children participated in the protest, dressed as Sikh, Hindu, Muslim and Christian. The aim, said the organisers, was to show that there is unity among all the religions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rajeev Mishra, one of the organizer said, \u201cThe present government instead of giving attention to various important issues like unemployment, economic slowdown, declining gross domestic product (GDP) and many other developmental issues, is distracting people with Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens(NRC). The government can\u2019t divide the people on the basis of religions.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cOur main question to government is what will happen to those people who have been a part of the country, but do not have the requisite documents? Where will they go? The government should answer these queries as it has created a fear among the residents,&#8221; Cynthia Ghodke, General Secretary, Navi Mumbai Congress said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The attendees protested by putting up black ribbons on their mouth as it was a silent protest and many participants also tied the black ribbons on their hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political parties, social organizations and religious groups from Navi Mumbai were at Shivaji chowk on Tuesday to protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). A silent March was taken out from Vashi Station to Shivaji Chowk to protest against the\u00a0CAA and NRC . Many children participated in the protest, dressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":318415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[12262,11775,38,433,12281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318417,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318414\/revisions\/318417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}