INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Updated: Jan 24, 2020 10:10 IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 24 (ANI): In protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Congress leader Haseeb Ahmad
visited a graveyard in Prayagraj and prayed to his ancestors buried there to provide proof of his citizenship."We don't have documents but
we have been living in India for generations
We are asking our ancestors to testify that we are the citizens of this country
We urge the government that if we are sent to detention camps then remains of our ancestors be kept there too," said Congress leader
The leader said that looking at the protests staged by women of this country against the Citizenship Act and NRC, he visited the
graveyard and appealed to his ancestors for his citizenship proof."I am also here for the women who are protesting against CAA and NRC
We belong to this country and will not leave the country," he added
The newly-enacted Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, 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
