

It was said that lady protesters were being paid Rs 500 and kids as young as one year were forced to take part.Īlso Read: Shaheen Bagh Congress sponsored? The protests also see people of all faiths take part in it, with havans, reading of Bible and Quran a common phenomenon.īut a few days ago, Amit Malviya, the IT-cell of the BJP out a tweet saying the protests were organised. The protesters allege that the Act is discriminatory, isolating the persecuted Muslims of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Shaheen Bagh protests are allegedly being held to tell the Narendra Modi government that they are not happy with the Citizenship Amendment Act. Some of them were even happy that those who had issues to chanti “Bharat Mata ki Jai” could now easily display the tricolour.

Reclaiming nationalism! Modi hai toh mumkin hai! Within minutes, Twitterati were in action! Some of them said that nationalism had been brought back with PM Narendra Modi in picture! I called it wearing their heart on their sleeves. "Hamare Dil mein thha, hamne dress banayee". Meet Sana and Shaheen from #ShaheenBagh wearing, yes wearing, the colors of our tricolour. She even used the words “reclaiming nationalism”. Impressed with their show of patriotism, the journalist clicked a picture of herself with them. On January 20, she tweeted a picture of two women at the protest site Shaheen Bagh wearing pinkish red, white and green abaya style burqa. Bengaluru: Journalist Barkha Dutt never shies away from expressing her controversial thoughts.
