Protestors at Kadru Haj house protesting against CAA, NRC and NPA on the lines of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh have refused to evacuate the site even as concerns of their vulnerability to the coronavirus pandemic grow. However, the organisers of the protest claimed that they have taken up several preventive measures so as to check the spread of coronavirus.
With an aim to end the deadlock, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya with an emissary from Government reached the Haj House on Thursday evening urging the protestors to end the protest so as check the spread of coronavirus.
Bhattacharya said, “I visited the area and urged the protestors who are sitting on dharna at Haj House protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), NRC (National Register of Citizens) and National Population Register (NPR) to end their demonstration in the larger interest of society so as to check the spread of virus.” The JMM leader said that he had asked the protestors to call off their dharna but the final decision has to be taken by them.
Meanwhile, the protestors sitting on dharna said that they have not taken a final decision on whether to call off their strike or to continue with their protest.
Tanveer Ahmad one of organisers of the protest said, “The protestors asked the JMM leadership on what assurance they will call off their strike.” The protestors asked the JMM leader to urge Chief Minister Hemant Soren and other senior leadership of party to raise the issue in Parliament. The protestors said that JMM and other opposition parties should work in brining a law opposing CAA, NRC and NPA.
Inspired by the protest spearheaded by women at New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh which began on December 15, 2019, an indefinite sit-in led by women is running at Kadru area near Haj House since January 20. The women are sitting on dharna against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
The protestors holding national flags, hundreds of women, after finishing their daily chores, gather at Kadru under the banner of ‘Hum Bharat ke Log (We the People of India). Temporary camps have been erected and arrangements to cook food have also been made for the women.