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 Ground Report - Jamia Millia Islamia Protest  A Ground Report on Jamia Millia Islamia Protest What was the Jamia Millia Islamia Protest? (Background)  -By Zeeshan Akhtar  On December 23, 2019, students of Jamia Millia Islamia University undertook a march to the Parliament protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. As the students marched towards the Parliament police stopped the march and both the students and police confronted each other and clashes broke out. There are two narratives of this incident, the first narrative is of the Jamia students who claim that the Delhi police used force and attacked the peaceful protestors with stones and batons, due to which a lot of students got injured and in retaliation students pelted stones. On the other side Delhi police has its own narrative where they say that after they stopped the students from marching to the parliament, the students attacked policemen with stones, hence the police retaliated to control the si...

 A Ground Report on Shaheen Bagh  What was the Shaheen Bagh protest?  -By Zeeshan Akhtar The Shaheen Bagh protest came into existence on 15th December 2019 when a group of 10-15 females decided to start a sit-in protest by blockading the Kalindi-Kunj Road which is a six-lane highway. As more and more people started joining the protest (especially women) it started attracting media and political attention. Few days into the protest more and more people started supporting the cause, which was to oppose the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019) which was passed by the BJP government as well as Shaheen Bagh was a voice against NPR, NRC, unemployment, poverty, women safety and police brutality.  Shaheen Bagh was a leaderless protest which was started by (mostly) Muslim woman, and this was one  of the major qualities of this protest as it was not influenced by any political party or a local leader. It was a group of women who decided to oppose CAA, NPR and NRC on the r...