Background of protests:
The Shaheen Bagh protest is an ongoing 24/7 protest being held at Shaheen Bagh, South Delhi. It began with the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on 11 December 2019 and the ensuing police intervention against students at Jamia Millia Islamia who were opposing the Amendment.
Protest mainly consists of Muslim women. They have blocked the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch (highway) in New Delhi. It has now become the longest ongoing continuous protest against CAA-NRC-NPR (more than 50 days).
Nature of the protest:
It is said that it is a non-violent protest. People there are not using any force. They are just sitting and protesting.
But in the backdrop of this protest, people are inciting the crowd. They are raising anti-national slogans. They are talking about cutting off state/states (for example Assam) from rest of India. They are talking about violence. They are threatening journalists and other people coming to the protest site.
Is it really a peaceful protest?
Suppose people there are not following violence and they are using their Fundamental Right of Freedom of Speech and Expression and propagating their views. In those views they are talking about violence. Is it not equivalent to creating a violent atmosphere? Or our definitions of “spreading violence” have become so shallow that we cannot even see whether it is really violent or not.
A peaceful protest is peaceful by thoughts as well as by actions. The greatest example is the thought process and actions of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi Ji. But here the story is entirely different. They are thinking (probably not even thinking) that they are being peaceful but in actions they are spreading violence by using their soft power, power of words.
In layman term- it is not a peaceful protest, it is just an eyewash on the face of “being peaceful”.
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