"Dadi of Shaheen Bagh" says CAA singles out Muslim community

"The anti-CAA protests

are to live with dignity and not to die with fear, and we will continue them till the Citizenship Amendment Act is withdrawn," Asma Khatoon, who rose to fame as one of the 'dadis (grandmother) of Shaheen Bagh' in Delhi, said here Tuesday.

She said the Act was to deny citizenship only to the Muslim community in the country.

"We are leading the anti-CAA protests to live with dignity, not to die with fear. The Act is a programme to deny citizenship only to the Muslim community," she said at a protest.

"We mothers have begun the protest/struggle, when the demonstrations were suppressed at Jamia Millia Islamiyya. Therefore, the protest will continue until the CAA is withdrawn," she said.

Ninety-year-old Khatoon came into the limelight after she started protesting against the CAA at Shaheen Bagh along with 82-year-old Bilquis and 75-year-old Sarwari.

The dadis were participating in a protest organised by the Welfare Party here in front of the Raj ...