MUMBAI: At the historic August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai on Thursday, it was not just the commoners and a huge chunk of students but also prominent personalities from the Bollywood that join the protest to vehemently register their opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens.
In a video shared by The Wire, actress Swara Bhasker, actor, dancer, comedian, impressionist Syed Javed Ahmed Jaffrey, director, writer and producer Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and filmmakers Anurag Kashyap turned out to protest against the CAA-NRC.
The ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ director said people who came out to protest against CAA-NRC are afraid adding that the time has come to be together to show the power of vote.
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Others to be spotted in the crowd included political leaders like Raj Babbar, Naseem Khan, Milind Deora, Hussain Dalwai, Eknath Gaikwad, film personalities like Rahul Bose, Saeed Mirza, Suhasini Mulay, Farhan Akhtar, Javed Jaffrey, and Sushant Singh, students, academicians, lawyers, social activists, NGOs and participated in the protest against the CAA-NRC.
After the long marches in their respective cities, the protestors staged a sit-in at various locations and chanted anti-CAA/NRC and anti-BJP slogans, sang patriotic songs in unison, clapped or danced under the watchful eyes of the large number of security personnel deployed all over.
Speakers and activists who spoke at different venues, attacked the BJP at the Centre for diverting the peoples’ attention from burning issues like inflation, unemployment, economic crises, agriculture distress and others by forcing the CAA-NRC on the nation.