Why UP anti-CAA protesters have had go into hiding.
| | | | | | | “I don’t regret anything that I did,” said Srishti Kashyap, an aspiring politician and businesswoman who lives in Varanasi. “I had to come out and protest because everyone else was too scared to do it.”
“We have become a country where an alleged rapist is given bail, but a peaceful protester is denied bail,” she said, referring to Chinmayanand, a former Union Minister, who is accused of sexually exploiting a law student.
Kashyap, who joined the Congress party in November 2019, was denied bail by the district court in Varanasi on 4 February, eleven days after she had organised a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The 24-year-old and her mother Neeti Kashyap have been on the run since 23 January, when the UP Police forcefully broke up the women-led protest in a park called Beniya Bagh in the city. |
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