Jamia girl students to share stage with Owaisi at anti-CAA rally in Hyderabad

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Jamia girl students to share stage with Owaisi at anti-CAA rally in Hyderabad

The pictures of the Hijab-clad girls went viral on social media

Saturday December 21, 2019 8:01 AM, ummid.com with inputs from IANS

Hyderabad: Ladeeda Sakhaloon Farzana and Aysha Renna, the students of Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi who have became the face of the anti-CAA protests, will share the dais with Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and other Muslim leaders at a public meeting here on Saturday.

United Muslim Action Committee, which is organising the protest meeting, has invited the Jamia students to address the gathering.

During the protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Jamia on Sunday, the two girl students stood in front of baton-wielding policemen to save a male friend. The pictures of the Hijab-clad girls went viral on social media.

Saturday's meeting, scheduled to be held at Darussalam, the headquarters of Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), will be addressed by religious scholars and leaders of various Muslim groups, including Jamaat-e-Islami.

The organisers have also invited Aman Wadud, a human rights lawyer from Assam, to address the meeting.

Probe into Jamia, AMU violence

On the other hand, the civil society and the members of religious minority groups in a meeting held in Delhi Friday decided to form an "Alliance against CAA and NRC" to probe violence in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

The meeting was attended by former Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor Lt Gen Zamiruddin Shah and Delhi University Professor Apurvanand Jha.

The body decided that a 'People's Inquiry Committee' be set up, headed by no less than a retired judge of the Supreme Court, to probe Police excesses committed against Jamia and AMU students. The body will appeal to the state governments to challenge this Act.

'Alliance against CAA and NRC' will support the agitation against the CAA any peaceful protests being currently organized all over India in around three dozen universities as it violates the secular nature of India.

The body attacked the government for its diabolical motive of resorting to faith based discrimination as the propelling force behind the CAA. It bails out non-Muslims who are not included in the NRC. Muslims alone are rendered stateless - ready to be consigned to detention centres, the body said.

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