KOLKATA: Anti-Citizenship mendment Act (CAA) protest at Park Circus Maidan that is continuing symbolically with women agitators stayingindoor turned 100-day-old on Wednesday. "There are only three pro- testors at the dharna manch due to the ongoing lockdown. They are cooking and staying inside the dharna manch and not coming out from the protest venue. Earlier, we kept pairs of shoes, scarves, dupat- tas and names of the women agitators. At present, we have removed it," said Debu Shaw, volunteer of the ongoing 'Swadhinata Andolan 2.0' at Park Circus Maidan.
The sit-in agitation by 60 Muslim women at Park Circu Maidan, christened as 'Kolkata's Shaheen Bagh', entered the 100th day on Wednesday. The 24-hour vigil against the Cen- tre's "discriminatory" policies, which started two days after the JNU violence, gained momen tum and women from different parts of the city joined the protest. "We are abiding by the guidelines of the state government in connection with the Coronavirus outbreak.
The 'Swadhinata Andolan 2.0 dharna manch at Park Circus Maidan has been sanitised by the Kolkata Municipal Corpration. We regularly clean the dharna manch," pointed out Shaw. "Demanding revocation of the contentious CAA-NRC-NPR, 'Swadhinata Andolan 2.0' started with 60 women at the Park Circus Maidan on January 7. The decision to reduce the number of protestors to three came in the wake of the lockdown to prevent Coronavirus," said a 45-year-old homemaker Asmat Jamil, organiser of the 'Swadhinata Andolan 2.0' at Park Circus aidan. Sameeda Khatoon, a 57-year-old protestor had died after suffering a heart attack at the protest site in Park Circus Maidan in February. "Sameeda had joined the anti-CAA rotest since the first day of the protest on January 7. She used to go to the protest site every day," pointed out Jamil.