Delhi: Protesters gather at Jama Masjid in Hundreds to Protest Against Citizenship Law

New Delhi  27/12/19 : Hundred of people today gathered outside the Jama Masjid in the old quarter of Delhi to protest against citizenship law

Delhi Police has made elaborate arrangements to check and deal with any untoward situation in the national capital and large gatherings have been banned in several sensitive areas of the city.

Flag marches were conducted in some areas of northeast Delhi and heavy police force was deployed in parts of the city ahead of Friday prayers and protests calls by some organisations against the amended citizenship act, police said.

Congress leader Alka Lamba and former Delhi MLA Shoaib Iqbal were among those who joined the demonstrations outside Jama Masjid. Ms Lamba hit out at the BJP government saying “unemployment is the real issue in the county, but you are trying to put people in a queue for NRC(National Register of Citizens), as it was done during demonetisation”.

Large gatherings have been banned in several parts of Delhi, including near Uttar Pradesh Bhawan, Seelampur and Jaffrabad in northeast Delhi. Police personnel have been deployed and barricades placed outside the UP Bhawan where a protest has been planned by students of the Jamia Millia Islamia against the “Police Raj of UP Police