CAA Row: Arundhati Roy comes out in support of students at Jamia; says, " I am with you."

NEW DELHI: Writer Arundhati Roy came out in support of students protesting against CAA at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia.

According to media reports, Roy stood in front of gate seven and said, “I have come here to tell you that I am with you,” she told students in front of gate seven of the university, also known as Jamia Square. “Now that we have all come together, no detention centre will be big enough to fill us in. I hope that a day will come when this government, which is trying to break the nation, will be in the detention centre and we will be azaad [free]. We won’t back down.” The crowd repeated after her and cheered her on as she shouted slogans of “Inquilab zindabad” ( “JNU zindabad”, and “Desh ki janta zindabad”.

Last year, while addressing a gathering of protestors at Delhi University, Roy stood in solidarity with those protesting and said that National Population Register will serve as a database for the National Register of Citizens. She asked people to oppose it.

Roy had earlier expressed her opposition to NRC and CAA. In a statement issued through the Twitter handle of Haymarket Books, she had said, “Three years ago, we stood in line obediently outside banks as demonetization was imposed on us, a policy that broke the back of our country’s economy. Now the National Register of Citizens coupled with the Citizenship Amendment Bill is set to break the back of our Constitution and cut the ground from under our feet. Are we going to stand in line once again, obediently, and comply with this policy that eerily resembles the 1935 Nuremberg Laws of the Third Reich?”

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