Bilkis Dadi became the face of the anti-CAA protests.
New Delhi:
Bilkis Dadi Shaheen Bagh of Delhi, who is listed in TIME magazine’s 100 “Most Influential People of 2020” list, has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “my son” and would be happy to meet him if invited. The 82-year-old woman became the face of protests against the citizenship law in the country earlier this year.
Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the center of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, had received worldwide attention after the citizenship act was passed by parliament last year. Most of the protesters who participated in the sit-in, which continued until the end of March, were women. Remembering the struggle of the protesters, Bilkis, aka “Dadi from Shaheen Bagh, “he told ANI news agency:” We continued our sit-in even when it rained or the mercury dropped or the temperature skyrocketed. We had been sitting since our children were beaten at Jamia. Shots were fired in front of us, but nothing deterred us. “
When asked if she would go to meet the Prime Minister, if invited, she said, “Why not? I would go. Why should you be scared?” As the journalist asked, if she would like to share her complaints with Prime Minister Modi, she said: “Modi Hee he is like my son. I am like his mother. I did not give birth to her … my sister did. (But) he’s like my son. “
“I congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi for also being included in this list,” he said, also speaking about the country’s fight against the coronavirus. “Our first fight is against the coronavirus. The disease must be eliminated from the world,” he stressed. The Shaheen Bagh protest site was cleaned up on March 24 when the national capital reported the first cases of the disease and restrictions were announced.
Bilkis’s profile on TIME magazine’s list, written by journalist and writer Rana Ayyub, says that she “became the voice of the marginalized in India.” With prayer beads in one hand and the national flag in the other, Bilkis became the voice of the marginalized in India, an 82-year-old man who sat in a place of protest from 8 a.m. to midnight (sic )”, He says. .
Prime Minister Modi and actor Ayshmann Khurrana have also appeared on TIME magazine’s list, along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, US President Donald Trump, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Professor Ravindra Gupta.
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