This story is from December 21, 2019

Delhi: Hundreds gather at Connaught Place to back Citizenship Act

Hundreds of people from different walks of life gathered at Connaught Place’s Central Park on Friday evening to express their happiness over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Delhi: Hundreds gather at Connaught Place to back Citizenship Act
While the programme at CP started with music and speeches by ordinary people on what they thought were the benefits of the new law, it touched a high-point when hundreds of participants, carrying placards and national flag and shouting pro-Modi slogans, took a march around Central Park
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people from different walks of life gathered at Connaught Place’s Central Park on Friday evening to express their happiness over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Though most participants said they heard about the event through social media and came on their own, the presence of BJP workers at the event validated that the saffron party was the force behind bringing people with ‘pro-CAA’ mindset at one place when other parts of the city witnessed massive protests against the Act.

While the programme at CP started with music and speeches by ordinary people on what they thought were the benefits of the new law, it touched a high-point when hundreds of participants, carrying placards and national flag and shouting pro-Modi slogans, took a march around Central Park.
Vikky Basoya, a student of Dyal Singh College, and his friends had come from Kotla Village to be a part of the “historic” evening. Wearing t-shirts with pro-Modi and pro-CAA message printed on them, the group shouted nationalist slogans and spoke enthusiastically about the new Act.
Blaming the opposition for “fuelling the fire”, Singh said the CAA did not have a single point that talked about sending Muslims out of the country. “It is the political parties that want to show BJP government in bad light and that’s why they are promoting such violent protests. When the Prime Minister and home minister Amit Shah have said that the Act is only about Hindu, Sikh and other refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, there is no scope for opposing the CAA,” he added.

Gautam Kumar, a doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, and his friend Mansi Singh, a second-year medical student, read about the event on social media and decided to participate. “The CAA will help thousands of families who faced persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to live a peaceful life in India,” Kumar said.
Singh added that connecting CAA with NRC (National Register of Citizens) was not correct and politicians should not mislead ordinary people. “What happened in Assam is a completely different story. NRC for other states has not been even announced yet. How can you connect the two?” he questioned.
Saurabh Mishra and Arvind Singh, BTech students from IP University, also read about the event on Twitter and decided to be a part of it. Carrying pro-CAA placards, which were given to them at Central Park, the two carefully listened to other people’s views on the Citizenship Amendment Act. “Our Muslim brothers need not worry with the implementation of CAA or even NRC. They are citizens of this country and will continue to be one. Political parties are misleading them,” Arvind clarified.
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