WILL NOT SHOW DOCU: NOTICES ON BAREILLY HOUSES
BAREILLY : The National Population Register survey is expected to start in April but Muslims in several old city localities of Bareilly and Bahedi have already put up posters on their houses saying they will not provide any information to the enumerators. “We will not show the documents. We are anti-CAA and not anti-National,” said one such poster in Hindi on a wall outside a shop in Bahedi, a Muslim dominated town.
BAREILLY: The National Population Register (NPR) survey is expected to start in April but Muslims in several old city localities of Bareilly and Bahedi have already put up posters on their houses saying they will not provide any information to the enumerators.
“We will not show the documents. We are anti-CAA and not anti-national,” said one such poster in Hindi on a wall outside a shop in Bahedi, a Muslim dominated town, 50 kilometres from Bareilly. A similar pattern has been adopted by anti-CAA protestors in Sailani in Bareilly’s old city where hundreds of houses too have put up ‘say no to CAA, NRC and NPR’ notices. But none of the residents are willing to own up these notices.
“I don’t know who has put up these notices. But yes, you can see them on most of the houses in the locality,” said Samran Khan, a resident of Sailani.
The trend apparently is a part of a strategy, another resident of the area revealed requesting anonymity.“We are not being allowed to hold protest or stage a sit-in against the citizenship law by the local administration and police. Consequently, a meeting of clergy was held in which it was decided to change the approach of the agitation,” he said.
Jamat Raza-e-Mustafa (JRM), the largest organisation of Sunni Muslim clerics in the region, issued a statement on Thursday saying that it will hold peaceful protests till the government took back the ‘controversial’ law.
“We would soon be holding a meeting of religious heads drawn from various parts of the country in Bareilly to chalk out an itinerary of this plan,” said JRM vice president Salman Khan.
He said a delegation of JRM met protesters at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Millia Islamia and JNU in Delhi.