Shaheen Bagh women stop their march to Home Minister's house after assurance of meeting
New Delhi/IBNS: Hundreds of women who were protesting at Shaheen Bagh have gone back to their sit-in protest after being assured of a proper appointment with Home Minsiter Amit Shah, media reports said.
The women who have been sitting on dharna at Shaheen Bagh protest site since the last two months began their march around 2pm today towards Home Minister Amit Shah's house to discuss the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The women neither had an appointment with the Home Minister for the meeting nor the permission for the march.
They stopped their march after they were informed that their application for the meeting was forwarded to the Home Minister, said reports.
On Thursday, Shah had said at the Times Now Summit that anyone who had doubts over the CAA could seek an appointment from his office and he would be willing to meet them within the next three days.
Earlier, the senior officials of the Delhi Police had asked the protesters to send their delegation for a meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah, but they had rejected the proposal.
"We will march to Amit Shah's house along with everyone here. We will speak in front of everyone. We will ask him to give in writing that NRC and CAA will be taken back," a protester had told NDTV.
Shaheen Bagh, a southernmost colony of the Okhla area in the national capital has become synonymous to the CAA resistance. The women here have been sitting on a dharna for nearly past two months. The demonstration started with the household women gathering together to express solidarity with the Jamia Millia Islamia students followed by violence in the campus premises during an anti-CAA protest on December 15.
Since then a number of Shaheen Bagh-like protests have erupted in the country in Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Karnataka and recently in Tamil Nadu.
Meanwhile, the Apex Court in its Feb 10 hearing over the issue said that protesters cannot block the public road and create inconvenience for others and extended the matter for Feb 17, Monday.
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