Death of infant at Shaheen Bagh protest is suicide bomb: Giriraj Singh

February 06, 2020 13:13

Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday said that the protest in Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has become a breeding ground for suicide bombers.

The statement from the Union Minister came in reference to the death of a four months old infant named Mohammed Jahaan due to cold recently at the protest site.

"A child dies due to cold in Shaheen Bagh and the mother says that his son has made the sacrifice. If this is not a suicide bomb then what it is? If we have to save the country, we should prevent these suicide bomb and khilafat Andolan type protests. The country must be careful of such protests," he said while speaking to ANI in New Delhi.

Jahaan, who use to accompany her mother to the Shaheen Bagh demonstration, has died last week after developing severe cold and congestion and getting exposed to the winter chill at the protest site. The infant breathed his last on the morning of January, 31.

Nazia has been regularly attending Shaheen Bagh protest since December 18 and has two more children including 5-year-old girl Ayat and two-year-old Noor Nawaj.

Nazia, however, says that she will continue to attend the protest as it was for the country. -- ANI

Image: Mohammed Arif, right, and Nazia with one of their surviving children pose for photographs at their residence in Batla House, New Delhi, on Monday. Arif and Nazia's infant son, whom they used to take to the Shaheen Bagh protests, reportedly died due to the exposure to the cold.

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