Participating as chief guest in a first ever brainstorming debate in Odisha on Citizenship Amendment Act-2019 held here, former State Women’s Commission Member and rights activist Namrata Chadha took on the protestors for indulging in violence and vandalism.
Taking a potshot at political parties in the debate organised by journalists and writers forum ‘The Media’, Chadha said that the law would give justice to the oppressed religious minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who are living as refugees in India for decades in a drastic condition.
She said that anti-CAA protest is only meant to woo Muslim voters by misleading them.
She also criticized the international community and United Nations for choosing to be mute spectators even as atrocities on religious minorities in those countries were grave and abysmal.
Joining as chief speaker, journalist Satyabrata Panda clarified the CAA in length and breadth, explaining that the law had nothing to do with Muslim citizens of the country. He questioned former PM Manmohan Singh and WB CM Mamata Banerjee for changing their stands now surprisingly after demanding CAA in the Parliament in the past.
Odisha Bar Council member and senior lawyer Bibhudhendra Mishra, former Chairperson of Puri Municipality and social activist Santilata Pradhan, Prof Abhimanyu Bhuyian, Prof Kartika Das, author Sudipta Mishra, educationist Lingaeraj Dash, orator Pravakar Mishra, advocate Rachita Routray, journalist Jupitor Das, Ashok Adhya, Pravat Panigrahi and Annapurna Devi tabled their arguments on the law.