With electioneering for Delhi Assembly poll at its peak, the Bharatiya Janata Party has taken up Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act as the focal point of its campaigning. Upping the ante against the protesters, BJP national secretary Tarun Chugh has now likened the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh to the ISIS module in Syria.

Chugh said that the party will not allow the national capital to turn into Syria. In a tweet, he alleged that the Shaheen Bagh protesters are trying to create fear in the minds of the people of Delhi by blocking roads.

The agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh began in mid-December following a violent protest against the law at Jamia Nagar.

Protesters, most of them women, have blocked a main road connecting areas in south-east Delhi with Noida, posing hardships for locals and commuters, including office goers.

"We will not let Delhi become Syria and allow them to run an ISIS-like module here, where women and kids are used.

"They are trying to create fear in the minds of people of Delhi by blocking the main route. We will not let this happen. (We will not let Delhi burn).#ShaheenBaghKaSach," Chugh tweeted.


Previously, BJP MP Parvesh Verma had also given a controversial statement about the protests and said that lakhs of anti-CAA protesters in Shaheen Bagh could enter homes to kill and rape women.

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"What happened in Kashmir with Kashmiri Pandits could happen in Delhi also. Lakhs of people gather at Shaheen Bagh, they could enter houses rape and kill your sisters and daughters. The people need to decide now," Verma said.

The West Delhi BJP MP said the people of the country felt safe because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi but he might not be able to save them if a situation like this arises.

Union Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had also alleged that it was a "textbook case" of a few hundred people "suppressing" the "silent majority".