During a protest to demand the release of people arrested during the Anti CAA/ NRC protest, Free Kashmir posters have surfaced in the South Indian City of Bangalore.
Scores of women and men gathered to demand the release of Amulya Leona, a 19 year old student, on February 20, a petite, young woman, got on to a stage filled with men and shouted “Pakistan Zindabad”.
The event was part of the ongoing nationwide agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The slogan she shouted alarmed the men present — including All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi who was on the stage — so much that they tried to snatch the microphone away and prevent her from speaking another word.
Her subsequent shout of ‘Hindustan Zindabad’ got suppressed in the chaos and her intentions regarding the raising of these slogans were misunderstood.
Her last post on Twitter read, ““Whatever country you may belong to, may your country live long,” her post read in Kannada. In the same post, she also wrote, “Hindustan Zindabad, Pakistan Zindabad, Bangladesh Zindabad, Sri Lanka Zindabad, Nepal Zindabad, Afghanistan Zindabad, China Zindabad, and Bhutan Zindabad.”
The protesters in Bangalore on Wednesday pointed out that minorities were being targeted throughout India.
During the Wednesday protests, several people appeared with the placards demanding ‘Free Kashmir’.