Commenting over BJP’s disappointed defeat in Delhi assembly polls, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan here on Tuesday said that public’s power was on exhibition in Delhi elections.
Addressing a public rally at historical Iqbal Maidan, Azad ridiculed the BJP for dismal show in Delhi assembly polls counting for which was underway till evening but trends suggested single digit seats for the BJP.
“They said the Shaheen Bagh would feel shock but look now they are hiding away from the media after the shock,” Azad said, adding it was all power of democracy and the public but some people have forgotten this in autocracy.
Notably, Bhopal’s Iqbal Maidan is witnessing an anti-CAA protest since December 10.
Praising the Muslim women for taking forward the anti-CAA fight with courage, he said when I had visited Shaheen Bagh, he had told the women that a single Shaheen Bagh won’t do, we need 5,000 of them. Those who called them sisters during triple talaq are not able to hear their voices now.
The Delhi’s educated public has replied to the question whether the public is powerful or the government, he added. He assured the Muslims that he would not let anyone thrown away into detention camps.
Saying that Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2003 had formulated rules saying the NRC would be done through NPR. First they did notebandi and now they are set to snatch away your votes, alleged Azad a lawyer by profession.
The Bhim Army chief further claimed that those who won’t be able to prove their citizenship would be reduced to refugees without any constitutional rights. Your jobs, assets, education and everything would be snatched away, Azad warned Muslims and Dalits claiming 44 per cent Dalits have no land whatsoever so with Muslims, they would also be targeted with lack of papers so it was high time they put up a fight with Muslims.
Azad claimed that they (BJP) are apprehensive people adding that earlier they sought documents post 1971 and later the Home Minister backtracked saying documents of post 1947 would be acceptable and those born here need not worry.
He requested Kamal Nath government urging it to withdraw cases slapped on Dalits for April 2 agitation, act against Tikamgarh violence against Dalits and prevent excesses on Dalit government staffers in Madhya Pradesh.
“Now I am making a polite request but let me make it clear that I urge MP Gvernment to expand the jail in Bhopal as I would re-visit with a challenge if our demands are not met,” claimed the visiting leader who announced that on their legal intervention, the High Court in Uttar Pradesh has ordered FIRs on those responsible for deaths of 24 protesters recently.