NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JAN 20
Members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) staged a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Guindy here on Saturday.
The protesters gathered on Five Furlong Road and marched towards Raj Bhavan. The protesters were stopped on Velachery High Road. They raised slogans and held placards against the central government. They carried the Tricolour expressing solidarity with the country and claimed that the law is discriminatory towards one section of people and that it should be scrapped. Police estimated that about 4,000 people, including at least 1,000 women, took part in the protest.
The protest went on for about two hours and traffic movement on Five Furlong Road was affected. Vehicles were diverted towards Velachery and Guindy. The Guindy police registered a case against the organisers and those who participated in the agitation, as police didn’t permit them to stage protests at the location.
