People gather at Jama Masjid to protest against CAA

Braving cold weather, scores of people gathered outside the iconic Jama Masjid in Old Delhi on Friday to protest against the amended citizenship law.

Congress leader Alka Lamba and former Delhi MLA Shoaib Iqbal were among those who joined the demonstrations.

Lamba hit out at the BJP government saying “unemployment is the real issue in the county, but you (PM) are trying to put people in a queue for NRC, as it was done during demonetisation”.

To deal with any eventuality, Delhi police had made elaborate security arrangements in the city besides imposing section 144 in several parts of the national capital. large gatherings too have been banned in areas like Seelampur, Jaffrabad and near Uttar Pradesh Bhawan in northeast Delhi.

Flag marches were also conducted in parts of north-east Delhi and security beefed up ahead of the Friday prayers and calls by some organisations for protest against the CAA.

The CAA intends to provide citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from Afghansitan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Critics of the law contend that the act violates the secular character of the Constitution.