Apart from protesting against the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), women in Chennai’s Shaheen Bagh area reportedly organised a baby shower for an expecting mother in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.The ceremony was conducted at the protest site in Chennai.At the event, women protesters performed rituals by decorating Bagyalakshmi — a pregnant woman — with flowers, sandalwood paste and countless bangles.The highlight of the event was a gift pack given by Bagyalakshmi’s family to the pregnant woman that carried a message, which said: “Muslims are our relatives”.Drawing inspiration from the Shaheen Bagh protesters in Delhi, scores of women in Chennai organised a massive agitation against the new citizenship law in the city.The newly amended law aims to fast-track the process of granting Indian citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants –Hindus, Jains, Parsis, Christians, and Buddhists — who faced religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.Scores of protests have been organised in the past couple of months across the country — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Lucknow among others — demanding revocation of the new law.
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/woman-receives-baby-shower-amid-protests-chennai-shaheen-bagh-1651151-2020-02-29
