“We won’t allow the Indian Constitution to be destroyed.” Ayesha Renna screaming at angry policemen with a pointed finger was among the most shared visuals from the recent anti-CAA protests at Jamia Millia Islamia university. She spoke to Brut India about why she thinks it’s important to protest the controversial law.
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00:00There is a kind of courage in which burning inside me, even in this kind of a situation,
00:06burning all over the everyone, because we are united.
00:11We won't allow the Indian constitution to be destroyed.
00:14I feel very sorry.
00:32I feel very sorry for the nation.
00:34I feel very sorry for the future of the nation and the future generation of the nation, because
00:40our constitution is being, you know, the constitution and the constitutional ideas are being destroyed.
00:47I'm very sorry for that.
00:49And I'm sorry, I'm sorry, because of your futures, your freedom of speech is taken away.
00:56If you are expressing, you are expressing anything against the Hindutva government,
01:01then definitely you will be subjected to the hatred campaign, which I am facing current
01:07situation.
01:08I'm sorry for everyone.
01:09I'm sorry for the future generation who won't be able to assert and hear the ideas of the
01:15Ambedkar.
01:16I'm sorry for the minority communities in all over the India who will be subjected to
01:21the CAA Act and all over these things which the BJP government is implementing.
01:29I'm sorry for the Dalits.
01:31I'm sorry for the Adivasis, but I'm sorry for everyone.
01:35But still, there is a hope which I am pursuing, there is a kind of courage in which burning
01:42inside me, even in this kind of a situation, burning all over the everyone, because we
01:49are united.
01:50We won't allow the Indian constitution to be destroyed.
01:54Somehow pray to your God, he will be giving you that power, he will be giving you that
01:59energy, be united, be together, we will be protesting.
02:04We won't allow the Hindutva government to act accordingly.
02:07We are not going on the way in which they are guiding us to.
02:12We have our identity, we have our own perspective, we have our own opinions and everything.
02:18We will be continuing and we will be living in India only on the basis of that.
02:24We won't be, we are not going to obey what you guys are telling.
02:29We will be having differences of opinion, we will be having differences of identities,
02:33we will be having differences of culture and the India government right now has to respect
02:40that.
02:41They have to do that, otherwise, definitely the student community all over the India will
02:45be protesting.
02:47And I'm sorry for the government who will be, you know, who will be subjected to the
02:53student protest activities because we are definitely acting against it, we are definitely
02:59acting against you guys if you are going ahead with this kind of activities and act.