How Did a Teenager Have the Gall to Open Fire at Jamia Protesters?

Did BJP leaders’ “goli maaron saa**n ko” & other such comments give the shooter at Jamia the gall to shoot?

A teenager brandished a gun at anti-CAA protesters near Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia and opened fired, injuring a journalism student of the university, Shadab Najar.

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“Desh ke gaddaaron ko, goli maaro s**lon ko”

Anurag Thakur, Minister of State, BJP 

The Bharatiya Janata Party has been on a communal overdrive ahead of the Delhi elections. The above mentioned slogan was chanted during one such incident when BJP leader and MoS Anurag Thakur was caught on camera at a rally calling for people to “gun down traitors”.

Though he was pulled down from the party's list of star campaigners for the elections, the video was widely seen and share on social media.

Ironically, a few days after this, on 30 January, a teenager brandished a gun at anti-CAA protesters near Delhi's Jamia Milia Islamia and opened fired, injuring a journalism student of the university, Shadab Najar.

And Delhi Police?

It is safe to say that the police were only spurred into action after the shots were fired, with no sense of urgency.

In today's podcast, we take stock of what happened at Jamia – and you'll be listening to an eyewitness account, our political editor Aditya Menon, our reporter from the ground, and the police themselves, about this shooter outside Jamia Milia Islamia.