Supreme Court-appointed mediator Sadhana Ramachandran on Thursday said that she would not go back to Shaheen Bagh on Friday but will hold talks separately with the ten women representing the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protesters at a different place. However, the protesters have said that the talks need to take place only in Shaheen Bagh and nowhere else. To this, the Shaheen Bagh protesters took the mediators to show them the alternate routes that can be taken but are allegedly blocked by the police for no reason. Protesters at South Delhi's Shaheen Bagh have been sitting in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) for over two months. Shaheen Bagh featured heavily in the BJP's election campaign against the ruling AAP.

Source: dna February 20, 2020 16:41 UTC