After three months of incessant controversial protest sit-in – against the Citizen Amendment Act enacted by the NDA government since December 2019 at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia Nagar, the Delhi police have finally been successful in evicting hundreds of protestors, especially hailing from the minority community. However, after the lockdown and promulgation of section 144 in Delhi, the protestors had already disappeared, confining the number of protestors to few. The Delhi Police senior officials along with the massive police force deployed in the Shaheen Bagh vicinity early today morning with the deployment of troopers in streets and rooftops near and around the Sit-in protest vicinity also arrested few participants – women and men, before dismantling the Dharna sthal and making the once hectic protest site against CAA completely ineffective and non-existent.
The reason to evict the protestors was primarily due to the promulgation of prohibitory orders under section 144 prohibiting gathering of 5 or more persons in view of the lockdown on account of the spread of dreaded contagious novel virus Covid 19 posing immense threat to Delhites. This long-pending action by Delhi police officials against Shaheen Bagh protestors has, however, been executed in a peaceful manner with the protestors allegedly terming this action as a forceful one, snatching their constitutional right to protest peacefully.
It may be recalled that the Shaheen Bagh issue against CAA had been the core and controversial issue during the Delhi elections in which the BJP allegedly accused the AAM Admi Party and its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leaders n its volunteers of instigating the anti CAA protestors by patronizing them fully, against the saffron party government at the center deliberately, not withdrawing the Dharna to garner the minority community votes whereas the AAP leaders n the Congress party had also blamed the saffron party leaders for capitalizing the Shaheen Bagh issue to polarise the majority community votes. But it was finally the Aam Admi Party n its chief Arvind Kejriwal who stood triumphant for the second time and compelled BJP to bite the dust. The saffron party, which once had the stronghold in Delhi politics prior to 1998 is out of power in NCT of Delhi for the last 22 years. It is despite the hard fact that Modi charisma secured power at the center for the second term with a thumping majority since 2014 compelling the Congress and other non-BJP rivals bite the dust. But it was Arvind Kejriwal, who proved to be a hard nut to be cracked, thus making the core BJP leaders completely ineffective in Delhi.
The Delhi police have also cleared the anti CAA protest sites in Delhi other than Shaheen Bagh site, having been enacted a few months before, in view of the lockdown and imposition of prohibitory orders under section 144 forbidding protests and gathering of a group of people. The Delhi police have appealed to protestors to peacefully clear the sites in view of the Delhi lockdown before taking action. In all, six women and three men were arrested today at Shaheen Bagh site. According to the latest reports, some of the delighted local residents have presented roses to the South District Delhi Police Commissioner RP Meena and other officers and also garlanded them after this action.
