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Timeline of Protests All Over India.

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Timeline of the Protest

  • 4 December
  • The Union Cabinet cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 for introduction in the parliament.
  • After the bill was cleared, violent protests erupted in Assam, especially in Guwahati, and other areas in the state.
  • In Dispur, several thousands of protesters broke down police barricades to protest in front of the Assam Legislative Assembly building.
  • Demonstrations were held in Agartala. Six people have died and fifty people have been injured in the protests against the Act.
  • 9 December
  • The Bill was introduced in 17th Lok Sabha by the Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah,
  • 10 December
  • The Bill was passed with 311 MPs voting in favour and 80 against the Bill.
  • 11 December
  • The bill was subsequently passed by the Rajya Sabha with 125 votes in favour and 105 votes against it. Those voted in favour included BJP allies such as Janata Dal (United), AIADMK as well as the Biju Janata Dal.
  • 12 December
  • After receiving assent from the President of India, the bill assumed the status of an act.  The act will come into force on a date chosen by the Government of India and will be notified as such.
  • Dipankar Das and Sam Stafford died due to police firing in Guwahati.
  • Akhil Gogoi has taken in preventive custody.
  • 13 December
  • The UK, USA, France, Israel and Canada issued travel warnings for people visiting India’s north-east region, telling their citizens to “exercise caution”.
  • Chief Ministers of Indian states of West Bengal, Punjab, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh said they will not implement the law.
  • 14 December
  • Ishwar Nayak died in Assam due to police firing.
  • Thousands of protesters packed into Jantar Mantar Road in Delhi.
  • 15 December
  • In Assam, Abdul Alim died due to police firing.
  • In Delhi near New Friends Colony, three Delhi Transport Corporation buses were torched.
  • Group of Artists in Guwahati stages concert as a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.
  • Police forcefully entered the campus of Jamia Milia Islamia University and detained the students. Police used batons and tear gas on the students. More than a hundred students were injured and an equal number were detained. The police action was widely criticized and resulted in protests across the country.
  • Protests held outside the campus of the Aligarh Muslim University. In the evening, police officers forcefully entered the campus and assaulted students. At least 80 students were injured.
  • In West Bengal, violent protests occurred and five trains were set on fire by the protesters in Lalgola and Krishnapur railway stations in Murshidabad district.
  • 16 December
  • In Lucknow, police prevent students of Nadwa University to come out of the campus to protest, leading to clashes.
  • Priyanka Gandhi led a silent protest at the India Gate along with about three hundred congress workers to show solidarity with the students of Jamia.
  • All Assam Students’ Union stages Satyagraha across Assam which continues till December 18.
  • In West Bengal, thousands of people joined a demonstration led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her ruling Trinamool Congress party.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for calm on Twitter and clarified that CAA was for the immigrants.
  • 17 December
  • The violent clash occurs in Delhi’s Seelampur area. Police retaliated with tear gas and batons against the stone-throwing protesters, several protesters and officers were injured. A police station was set on fire and buses were vandalized in the area.
  • 18 December
  • Supreme Court of India hearing 60 petitions challenging the Act, declined to stay implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and set 22 January 2020 as the next date of hearing on the constitutional validity of the act.
  • 19 December
  • 3 protesters (2 in Mangalore and one in Lucknow) die in police firings.
  • The Administrative authorities imposed a ban against public gatherings in BJP ruled states Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and parts of Delhi. Access to internet was restricted in certain places in Delhi and Bangalore.
  • Internet was suspended in certain regions of Uttar Pradesh, including the capital city, Lucknow having the data & text services restricted till noon of 21st December 2019. Internet services were also suspended in Sambhal, Aligarh, Mau, Ghaziabad, and Azamgarh districts.
  • Protest meetings were held defying the ban in Delhi’s Red Fort and Bengaluru. Tens of thousands of people protested in Hyderabad, Patna, Chandigarh, Mumbai and other cities. Calls were made using social media platforms to ask people to turn up and protest peacefully.
  • In Delhi, politicians Yogendra Yadav and Sitaram Yechury along with around 1,200 protesters were detained by the police.
  • In Delhi, at least 700 flights were delayed and more than 20 cancelled due to traffic jams caused by police closing the roads to stifle protests.
  • In Bengaluru, Historian Ramchandra Guha along with several other professors was detained by the police. According to the police around 200 protestors were detained in Bengaluru.
  • Curfew imposed in Mangaluru until 20 December, accompanied by violent clashes and death of 2 people due to police firing. The police were later witnessed to have forced entry into the hospital where the 2 people were brought.
  • UNICEF issued a statement asking the government to respect children’s right of freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and protest as per the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • In Ahmedabad, during a violent clash in the Shah-e-Alam’s Roza area police used tear gas to counter stone-pelting while trying to disperse a crowd of 2000 protesters.
  • 90 protestors including 50 students of the Hyderabad university were detained by Hyderabad police.
  • A crowd with thousands of protesters gathered at Moulali in central Kolkata to peacefully object CAA and NRC.
  • The protests involving 20,000 protesters concluded peacefully at the August Kranti Maidan at Mumbai.
  • 20 December
  • 6 protesters (one each in Meerut, Sambhal, Kanpur and Firozabad and 2 in Bijnor) are killed in police firing in UP.
  • Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad conducted a protest march from Delhi’s Jama Masjid.
  • 21 December
  • Chandrashekhar Azad was arrested along with 27 people and three FIRs were registered for the violent incidents on 20 Dec at Delhi Gate and Seemapuri.
  • 1100 academics and academic staff from around the world issue a joint statement supporting the Act.
  • Peaceful protests occurred in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Maharashtra and Delhi.  An all-woman protest was demonstrated across Assam.
  • A spontaneous protest march, approximately 1.5 km long occurred in Kolkata.
  • Clashes were reported during the protest near Chennai Central railway station.
  • 1 protester died and several injured in clashes at multiple locations in Uttar Pradesh. Access to the internet continued to be restricted in many places.
  • In Patna and other towns of Bihar, supporters of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) protested at bus and train stations and blocked roads.

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