Nearly 70 students detained at DU campus during anti-CAA protest

AISA President Nilasis Bose and General Secretary Prasenjeet Kumar, in a joint statement on Tuesday, said: “With the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024, being notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday, the BJP-led central government has delivered yet another blow to the democracy and secular fabric of the nation. The widespread and strong resistance against the patently unjust, discriminatory, and divisive CAA in December 2019, and the fight put up by the people to uphold the Constitution and democracy was quelled by the government.”

Another DU student, who was detained for being part of the protest, said: “Today, we were protesting against the CAA and NRC at DU when we were detained by police… We urge all the students of Delhi University to join this protest against… implementation of CAA-NRC.”

Under the Rules, persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians — from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be eligible to acquire Indian nationality.

After the CAA Bill was passed in Parliament on December 11, 2019, protests erupted across the country.

Security, meanwhile, has been tightened across the national capital with paramilitary personnel conducting night patrols and flag marches in the northeastern parts of the city and other sensitive areas, police said.