CAA: All roads lead to August Kranti Maidan in Mum

December 19, 2019 15:51

The Congress, NCP and various other parties have formed a front and are organising a protest at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai today against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). These parties have come together under a front, called 'Hum Bharat Ke Log', which will hold a protest at the Maidan, a release issued by the front said. It dubbed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and NRC as"unconstitutional and discriminatory".

Besides the Maharashtra units of Congress and NCP, the Samajwadi Party, CPI, CPM, JD(S), Peasants and Workers Party of India, Muslim League and various citizen organisations will also take part in the protest. The front, in its release, said December 19 is historically significant as it was in this day in 1927 that freedom fighters Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan and Roshan Singh were went to the gallows. They symbolise the rich heritage of the country's freedom struggle and communal harmony led by Mahatma Gandhi and other national leaders, it said.

"The Constitution, drafted by Dr BR Ambedkar, is being violated and is under attack. This is the reason that the entire country has chosen this day to condemn the unconstitutional and divisive laws of the BJP government," it said. -- PTI

Image: Police bandobast at August Kranti Maidan ahead of the anti-CAA protests in Mumbai. Pic: Neeta Kolhatkar.

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