The purpose of recounting and enumerating these speeches and the vilification campaign is to explain the kind of impact that it has had on the public at large, especially on the youth like the person who was involved in the Jamia shooting.This despite the fact that the ongoing protests in Shaheen Bagh and Jamia have peaceful. While addressing an election rally on Thursday last week, he remarked, “On February 8, you will be deciding who should form the government in Delhi… On one side it is Narendra Modi, who conducted airstrikes and surgical strikes on Pakistan’s soil to kill terrorists, and on the other, there are these people who back Shaheen Bagh. Until and unless that happens, there is no guarantee that similar incidents will not be repeated in the near future.. You have to decide. Like several other sections of society, the students of Jamia have put up a consistent protest against the CAA ever since its passage in Parliament in December 2019.Outrage against the unrelenting repression triggered the women of Shaheen Bagh to start a first-of-its-kind indefinite dharna to protest against police brutality and CAA-NRC. Shaheen Bagh has also presented itself as a model for people elsewhere wanting to protest against the CAA and NRC, and dozens of Shaheen Baghs have been emulated in other parts of the country. On Saturday last week, while addressing an election rally in Delhi,Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had also said, “If not words, then bullets will make people understand”..What is worrying is that while just after the Jamia incident, Union home minister Amit Shah assured that “the culprit will not be spared”.
As a matter of fact, the number of protesters have been swelling day by day.Meanwhile, the government, its supporters and all those discontented with these protests, which includes a section of the mainstream media, have been all out spreading not just misinformation but also hatred against these protesters. According to a report, neighbours of the accused believe that “it’s the effect of Shaheen Bagh, JNU Taizhou Chaotian Pneumatic Tools Co, Ltd. [Jawaharlal Nehru University] and AMU [Aligarh Muslim University].In a shocking turn of events on Thursday last week, a man brandishing a gun opened fire at the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) protesters near Jamia Millia Islamia, injuring a student of the university. All this has made life as a Muslim even more difficult.” This can be corroborated with the fact that minutes before he opened fire on the protesters, he had posted on his Facebook page, “Shaheen Bagh, Khel Khatam”, intending that his act was going to end the logjam at Shaheen Bagh. The restlessness among the ruling establishment and its allies to break away these protests is palpable when in a repeat of the firing incident on Thursday, another man fired at the protesters in Shaheen Bagh on Saturday.It becomes imperative to understand the “chronology” that has led up to this turn of events.
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