82-yr-old Shaheen Bagh protestor Bilkis in TIME's 100 Most Influential list
New Delhi, Sep 23: The 82-year-old Bilkis, who sat at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, has been named in TIME magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bollywood actor Ayushman Khurana, Professor of Clinical Microbiology Ravindra Gupta, and Google Chief Executive officer Sundar Pichai are the other names who made it to the list.
The 'Dadi of Shaheen Bagh' Bilkis became one of the prominent faces of the protest for her sheer resistance despite her age. She was one among the many women who sit in protest all day into the night at Shaheen Bagh.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, approved by Parliament on December 11, provides citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and entered the country by December 31, 2014. It has been widely criticised for excluding Muslims. Protests against the Act started in Delhi in mid-December and spread across the country.
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Meanwhile, recently, the Delhi Police have alleged that organisers of the Shaheen Bagh protests also conspired to overthrow the government, and sparked the communal violence in the city which broke out in February.
Many
organisers
and
youth
leaders
involved
in
the
protests
are
in
police
custody.
China
President
Xi
Jingping,
United
States
President
Donald
Trump,
German
leader
Ursula
von
der
Leyen,
Black
Lives
Matter
Founders
Alicia
Garza,
Patrisse
Cullors
and
Opal
Tometi,
Alibaba
Group
Chief
Executive
Officer
Daniel
Zhang,
musician
Megan
Thee
Stallion,
tennis
star
Naomi
Osaka,
US
Federal
Reserve
Chairperson
Jeremy
Powell,
singer
Selena
Gomez,
actor
Phoebe
Waller-Bridge
were
among
many
who
features
on
the
list.