Addressing a massive gathering, Azad said the Citizenship Amendment Act is a 'black law' that is dividing people on religious lines.
In
the next 10 days, there will be 5,000 more protest sites like Shaheen
Bagh across the country, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar
Azad said on Wednesday evening as he reached the iconic
demonstration spot in south Delhi to extend his support to the women
protesting against CAA and NRC.
Addressing
a massive gathering, the Dalit leader said the Citizenship Amendment
Act is a "black law" that is dividing people on religious
lines.
"I
congratulate those who have participated in this protest. This is not
just a political agitation. We have to save the Constitution and
unity of the nation," he told the women who have been staging a
sit-in against the CAA
for more than a month now.
Azad
said even the record-breaking cold has not been able to break the
will power of the women protesters.
The
crowd, singing Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Urdu poem 'Hum Dekhnege' before
Azad's arrival, got charged as he reached the venue.
Holding
the Constitution, he said, "I promise you that in next 10 days
there will be at least 5,000 Shaheen Baghs across the country".
Azad
said that earlier everyone had heard about Jallianwala Bagh, but now
they were talking about Shaheen Bagh. "If you have the courage
of sacrifice, then you have to sacrifice with holding your
demonstration peacefully," he said.
"Till
the Bhim Army is here, this law would not be applicable and they have
to go through my corpse (to implement it)," Azad said.
"The
court is saying that we should respect our Prime Minister. I do and
and I will do because the constitution says this. But the Prime
Minister also needs to respect the constitution of this country,"
he said.
The
protesters hailed Azad and raised slogans in his support.
He
said when he was in Tihar jail, he read the newspapers to know about
the situation of women sitting on protest at Shaheen Bagh.
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