Congress leaders at Delhi sit-in, Bengal CM leads march

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held a road show in Kolkata, saying the mass agitation would continue till the Centre scraps CAA.

Updated on: Dec 17, 2019, 02:04:38 IST

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Opposition leaders on Monday stood firmly behind the protesting students, with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra holding a sit-in at India Gate in Delhi, saying the atmosphere in the country has become “bad”. “We will fight for the Constitution,” she said. Congress president Sonia Gandhi said the central government was “at war with its own people.”

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra holds a sit-in protest in a show of solidarity with the students from Jamia Millia Islamia and several other universities across the country protesting the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, at India Gate, in New Delhi, on Monday, December 16, 2019. (Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held a road show in Kolkata, saying the mass agitation would continue till the Centre scraps CAA.

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