Police attempt to clear key road blocked by anti-CAA protesters in Delhi's Jaffrabad
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi Police are attempting to clear a key road in northeast Delhi's Jaffrabad on Sunday, which has been blocked since Saturday night by hundreds of women protesting against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The women protesters are also extending support to Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad's call to hold a nationwide strike on Sunday following the Supreme Court's observation earlier this month that "quotas and reservations for promotions for government jobs is not a fundamental right".
Demanding the repeal of the CAA, hundreds of women began sit-in dharna near the Jaffrabad metro station on Saturday night.
Amid heavy police presence, women were seen holding national flags and shouting slogans 'Azaadi (freedom).'
On Sunday morning, the Jaffrabad metro station was temporarily closed down.
Police are now holding talks with the protesters to clear the area.
Meanwhile, Delhi is already witnessing a massive anti-CAA sit-in protest led by women at Shaheen Bagh, which is now identified as the epicentre of demonstrations against citizenship law.
On Saturday, a road, which was blocked for 70 days in Shaheen Bagh due to anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, was reopened.
The Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch connects Delhi with Noida in Uttar Pradesh and Faridabad in Haryana.
The protesters had opened a small portion of a road leading to Kalindi Kunj so that locals can pass through it with their two-wheelers, police said.
Following the protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh since December 15 last year, the Kalindi Kunj marg, has been shut for traffic movement.
The CAA aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to India before 2015.
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