Anti-CAA slogans at RSS' ulema meet; Delhi police detains 8 people

New Delhi: A protest broke out at a pro-CAA ulema meet called by RSS leader Indresh Kumar led Muslim Rashtriya Manch at the Constitution Club on Thursday, when around 10 people in the front of the stage started shouting anti-CAA slogans. Eight people were detained by the police for disrupting the event.

The programme continued after the sloganeering, with junior imams of Delhi and Ghaziabad, mainly Sunni cleric Maulana Suhaib Qasmi and Shia cleric Maulana Kokab Mujtaba, talking about the need for the "Muslim community to not be misled over the Citizenship Amendment Act."

Indresh Kumar said it was important for Muslims to “understand that Islamic countries can never be welfare states” Pointing to the disruption caused by protesters, he said, it was clear, who is “on the side of peace and who is not”. “Over 16 sects of Muslims, be it Sindhis, Ahmediyas or Baluchis and several others, have been ill-treated in Pakistan. Will you support that,” he asked. Kumar said he will meet members of the Muslim community in Varanasi, Jaipur and Kashmir in the coming weeks to "dispel myths on CAA."


VHP working President Alok Kumar, said: “CAA will not undermine the citizenship of any Indian”. One of the protesters ET managed to speak with said it was not right for the Muslim clergy to pull the movement back.