INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Updated: Jan 18, 2020 10:31 IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Women continue to hold a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and
the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at the Ghanta Ghar here even as women continue to protest at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh.Women here are
protesting and singing the National Anthem, holding the tricolour flags in their hands
The number of women joining the agitation here is continuously increasing
Earlier on Friday, hundreds of women staged a sit-in protest in Prayagraj, to express their discontent over the CAA, NRC and National
Population Register (NPR).The district administration had also filed an FIR against some of the protesters in a bid to remove them from the
However, the protesters continued to occupy the space.To spread the message of brotherhood and patriotism, the protestors, mostly Muslim
women had decked the venue with a collage of Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaq Ullah Khan, who have sacrificed their lives for the Indian
independence movement, along with the Indian tricolour flag.Protests broke out in different parts of the country against and in support of
CAA which grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December 31, 2014
