Will come back tomorrow, say SC appointed mediators after meeting Shaheen Bagh protesters

New Delhi: After interacting with the anti-CAA protestors at Shaheen Bagh, Supreme Court-appointed mediator Sadhana Ramachandran on Wednesday said that they will hold talks with the protestors tomorrow also.

“We met them and listened to them. We asked them if they want us to come back tomorrow as it’s not possible to complete the talks in one day. They said they want us to come back tomorrow, so we will,” Ramachandran told media here.

While interacting with the anti-CAA protestors at Shaheen Bagh, Ramachandran said that their right to protest should not affect the right of others to use public road and services.

“The Supreme Court has said that you have the right to protest. The law (CAA) has been challenged in the Supreme Court. But like us, others too have their rights, like the right to use roads, open their shops, students reaching their schools. Your right to protest should not affect the right of others to use these services,” Ramachandran said at Shaheen Bagh.

Talking to the protestors, she said that she will hear them out and together they will find a solution that will set an example for not only the country but for the world.

“It will tell the world that we think about everyone and not only ourselves,” she told the demonstrators protesting against the recently implemented Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The Supreme Court had on Monday appointed senior lawyers Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran besides former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah to go and talk to protesters at Shaheen Bagh area to convince them to hold the agitation at an alternative site.

Thousands of people, including a large number of Muslim women, have been staging a sit-in protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area since mid-December last year against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). (ANI)