{"id":8378,"date":"2020-02-04T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:12","slug":"tathagata-roy-calls-shaheen-bagh-protesters-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/tathagata-roy-calls-shaheen-bagh-protesters-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tathagata Roy calls Shaheen Bagh protesters \u201cnuisance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy slammed the protesters of Delhi&#8217;s Shaheen Bagh on Monday, calling them a \u201cnuisance\u201d. Roy was at the Kolkata International Book Fair, when he made the comments on the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests of Shaheen Bagh, adding that the protesters were causing huge inconvenience to the people of Delhi and putting up a \u201c<em>nautanki<\/em>\u201d (drama) for the last 50 days. He used the word \u201cdespicable\u201d to describe these protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Since December 15, 2019, hundreds of protesters, mostly women, are in a sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh to protest the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). They are demanding a repeal of the CAA.<br \/>\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said from an election rally in Delhi that there is a bigger political design behind the protests. He also said that if these are are not stopped now, then the protesters will block some other roads in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Union Minister of State Anurag Thakur came under fire for making inflammatory slogans at an election rally in Delhi. He had said, \u201cShoot the traitors of the country\u201d. After Thakur&#8217;s comment, another BJP MP Parvesh Verma had said, \u201cthe people of Shaheen Bagh will enter your houses, rape your sisters and daughters and kill them.\u201d<br \/>\nUttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of feeding biryani to CAA-NRC protesters and said that the BJP government will feed them bullets. Twenty-five people have been killed in anti-CAA protests across the country in clashes with police, out of which 23 were from UP itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people are holding a sit-in at Delhi&#8217;s Shaheen Bagh since mid-December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[220,83,92,120,253],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-anti-caa-protests","9":"tag-delhi","10":"tag-narendra-modi","11":"tag-shaheen-bagh","12":"tag-tathagata-roy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}