Large number of people protest against CAA after Friday prayers in Delhi's Jama Masjid
New Delhi/IBNS: Even as Delhi reeled under cold wave on Friday, a large number of people staged protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) after reading namaz in Jama Masjid here, media reported.
People registered their protests with slogans and holding placards reading 'Save the Constitution, don’t divide India’.
The protesters said the country needs employment and peace instead of the National Register of Citizens(NRC), the National Population Register(NPR) and the new Citizenship law, Hindustan Times reported.
“Is desh ko NRC, NPR nahi chaiye. Is desh ko rozgaar chahiye. Is desh ko aman aur shanti chahiye," the news organisation quoted a protester in its report.
The protesters appealed to everyone to express their dissent peacefully.
Congress leader Alka Lamba and former Delhi MLA Shoaib Iqbal joined hundreds of demonstrators outside Jama Masjid, reports said.
“It is very essential to raise the voice of democracy for the country and for the Constitution. A central government cannot become dictatorial and impose it agenda on people,” Lamba was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.
Meanwhile, Delhi Metro Railway Corporation(DMRC) closed the entry and exit gates of Lok Kalyan Marg as a group of CAA protesters marched toward Prime Minister's residence demanding the release of Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad who was arrested last Friday on the charges of instigating people in a provocative speech in old Delhi's Daryagang.
The protesters started their march from Dargah Shah-e-Mardan in Jor Bagh in the city amid heavy police surveillance and drone monitoring and were stopped at a barricade in Lok Kalyan Marg near Prime Minister's residence.
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