A few protesters who had stripped naked in New Delhi in January against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. They include Assam Scheduled Caste Yuva Parishad leader Jadav Das and members of the students’ wing of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti that had spearheaded the anti-Bill movement by 70 organisations. The stir was against the BJP for “betraying the trust of the indigenous people” to provide citizenship to “Hindu Bangladeshis”. Mr Das said that they had been provoked to stage a naked protest against the Bill by those who “have openly supported the Congress”.
