{"id":320301,"date":"2020-02-23T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320301"},"modified":"2020-02-23T06:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:53:37","slug":"anti-caa-protest-jaffrabad-metro-station-closed-as-people-protest-outside-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/anti-caa-protest-jaffrabad-metro-station-closed-as-people-protest-outside-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti CAA Protest: Jaffrabad Metro Station closed as people protest outside station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320302 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/protest-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/protest-2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/protest-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/protest-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/protest-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/protest-2-562x420.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/>The entry and exit gates of Delhi\u2019s Jaffrabad Metro station were closed on Sunday morning amid a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) outside the station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Entry &amp; exit of Jaffrabad have been closed. Trains will not be halting at this station,&#8221; the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 500 protesters, mostly women blocked the road below the Metro line and said that they will not end the protest against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Heavy security was deployed around the Metro station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Carrying Tricolours and raising slogans, the women protesters said that they would not move from the spot until Centre revokes CAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protest at Jaffrabad happened at a time when efforts are being made to clear a road blocked by anti-CAA protesters at Shaheen Bagh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protesters have been on a sit-in at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) for over two months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Top Court has appointed mediators in an attempt to reach out to the anti-CAA protesters<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entry and exit gates of Delhi\u2019s Jaffrabad Metro station were closed on Sunday morning amid a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) outside the station. &#8220;Entry &amp; exit of Jaffrabad have been closed. Trains will not be halting at this station,&#8221; the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) tweeted. More than 500 protesters, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[12262,12652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320301"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320303,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320301\/revisions\/320303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}