Bilkis Bano, an 82-year-old woman who featured in Time magazine’s list of The 100 Most Influential People of 2020, for protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood, on Tuesday said she would continue to oppose the new citizenship laws till their demands are met, The Wire reported. “If we don’t raise our voice, if we don’t come out of our houses, how will the government know that we have an issue?” she asked.
Bano was speaking at a press conference organised by Saheli, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, National Federation of Indian Women and others on Tuesday, to celebrate her recognition by the Time magazine.
Besides Bano, former member of the Planning Commission Syeda Hameed, general secretary of NFIW Annie Raja, journalist Bhasha Singh, Delhi University’s Poonam Batra and PUCL’s Vertika Mani, were the other…