A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests ...
A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests last winter. Months later, the Delhi Police called them in for questioning in its controversial riots case, which blames the communal violence that took place in India’s capital in February on a conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors to overthrow the Narendra Modi government. Over 70 protestors have been interrogated in the case. Below is an account by one of them.
Read more about the case which has been described as a witchhunt against protestors here. Read more accounts of those who have been questioned in the case here.
When protests began against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December 2019, Dinesh Abrol was just glad that young people were not “all about their careers and not concerned about society”.
“That was what many people in our generation involved in the people’s movements had come to believe,” said the 67-year-old science professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, who is part of the Delhi Science Forum. In the 1970s, as a young PhD student at JNU, he had fought the Congress-imposed Emergency, and has since been involved in social movements.
“It was very heartening to see...
