Thane: 'Shaheen Bagh protesters of Kalyan' want Maharashtra govt to pass anti-CAA resolution

KALYAN: These women, like their counterparts in the national capital's Shaheen Bagh, are at Kalyan's KDMC Ground for a cause. The women protesters -- whose indefinite protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens and National Population Register at the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation Ground in the Govindwadi area which falls under the Thane district of Maharashtra entered ninth day on Wednesday -- said on Wednesday that they wanted the state government to pass a resolution in the state assembly against the CAA as done by the other Congress-ruled state like Rajasthan, Kerala and Panjab.
Encouraged by the ongoing women-led protest at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi against the new citizenship law, eight days ago, a protest was started at the KDMC Ground, calling it the Shaheen Bagh of Kalyan.
Uzma Sayyed, a lab technician, has not joined duty for the last nine days since the protest started. Sayeed said, "We want the Maharashtra government to pass a resolution against the CAA like the four states Kerala, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Panjab." Another protester Shahista Qazi said, "As some other states have passed a resolution against the CAA, we want the Maharashtra government to also pass similar resolution."
Khalida Khan, one of protesters, said, "We have decided to continue with the protest until the central government-run by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah withdraws the draconian and unconstitutional citizenship law."
While the protest during daytime witnesses less numbers of crowd, it increases during evening when thousands of people gather. Many students and kids were also seen participating in the protest.