The warp of protests against CAB that started in the Northeastern part has spread to more states taking violent turns in Delhi and West Bengal.
In south Delhi, the buses were torched along with a fire tender in the evening. The police had to enter the campus at Jamila Milia Islami to take control of protests by the students. The entry and exit gates were blocked and police lathi-charged the students before rounding up scores of them.
“Dozens of students were injured in the police action, and the police asked students to move out quickly while keeping their hands up,” the student said. A student said the police entered the reading hall and mosque in the university which led to a scuffle among the students and police.
The city police have advised the Delhi Metro rail corp to close the entry and exit gates of Sukhdev Vihar station and Gate No.3 of Ashram station, and they asked the Metro trains not to stop at these stations. Later, the four other metro stations in and around the campus were closed.
In the violence and stone-pelting by protesters, yesterday, several policemen including South East District DCP, additional DCP (South), 2 assistant commissioner of Police, 5 station house officers and inspectors have been injured: Delhi Police
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to protesters to be calm and not involve in any violence. “No one should indulge in violence. Any kind of violence is unacceptable. Protests should remain peaceful,” he said. Delhi Police told PTI that six of its personnel were injured in the violence.
In spite of repeated appeal from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to maintain peace, the violence continues in West Bengal. Nadia, North 24 Paraganas and parts of Barddhaman from parts of Howrah, Murshidabad and adjacent areas of Kolkata are engaged in protests.
Internet data were stopped in six districts as the violence spread with protests leads setting fire on vehicles, damaging few trains and shops. Tyres were burnt and roads were blocked at Raghunathganj in Murshidabad, Kamdevpur, and Amdanga in North 24 Paraganas for long hours. Agitators were seen heating food from wooden logs that were set on fire. The slogans against amended CAB were heard and many were holding placards to oppose it. Even the vehicle of railway police was set on fire at Manikgram station in Murshidabad and many trains going or coming from South India were delayed or terminated for the day.
President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh blamed the Chief Minister “for protecting Bangladeshi extremist Muslims who instigated violence” while Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders said BJP is organizing “extremist Muslims.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an election rally in Jharkhand, “People of North-East have rejected violent agitation and are now protesting peacefully against amended Citizenship Act.”
More than 10 separate petitions have been filed in Supreme Court against the amended Citizenship Act. Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), BJP’s ally in Assam said would file a petition in the apex court to revocate the amended act according to party leader Kumar Deepak Das.
According to the reports, former Union Minister P. Chidambaram will file a petition on behalf of former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi. On Saturday, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress’ Lok Sabha member T.N. Prathapan have also filed a petition against this amended CAB. Other petitions have been files by TMC lawmaker Mahua Moitra and senior Congress leader and former union minister Jairam Ramesh.
More people are expected to file petitions on Monday morning. The advocates of various petitioners are expected to present the case for urgent hearing before the Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde on Monday. It rather depends on the chief justice tp accept the request of hearing or not. If he doesn’t allow the case hearing then the case will be considered as a regular case.