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Shaheen Bagh fame Bilkis ‘Dadi’ was detained and escorted from Delhi-Haryana’s Singhu border today when she attempted to join hundreds of farmers protesting against the new farm bills.
Shaheen Bagh fame Bilkis Bano Dadi has come to join Farmers Protest to register her support to their cause. However She was sent back from Delhi border where she went to meet protestors. She says, it was a show of solidarity because she’s a ‘farmer’s daughter and bahu’
” I have come to support the farmers. their demands are genuine. Government must withdraw the new agriculture law. It is against the interest of farmers. I am daughter and daughter in law of Kisan and i am in support of farmers”, said Dadi
“Kisan bhai supported us when we were protesting, now it’s our turn” she added.
Bilkis ‘Dadi’ had made headlines last year when she along with other women residents of south Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh staged a sit-in against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bills which grew into a massive movement against the legislation seen as anti-Muslim. She was also recognised by the American weekly Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2020 alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bollywood actor Ayushman Khurrana.
At the peak of the protest in January this year, several Sikh farmers from unions in Punjab had turned up in Shaheen Bagh to lend support and set up a langar to provide hot meals to those on protest.