Anti-CAA protests are part of bigger plot: Dinesh Sharma

LUCKNOW: Deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said on Saturday that there was a pattern in the ongoing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and national register of citizens across the country which appears to be a part of a planned, organised conspiracy for coup.
Speaking at a news channel event on Saturday, Sharma said, “How is it possible that whenever there is a protest in JNU, political leaders land in the campus within 15 minutes? And then protests start in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University in half an hour and in Jadhavpur and Mumbai soon after? There has to be a network which wants to destabilise government in the country.”
Sharma also defended the action taken by UP Police against the anti-CAA, NRC protesters.
“The UP Police did nothing wrong… It simply performed its duty,” Sharma said, on being asked to comment on the criticism of state police department’s action against the protesters.
Speaking about the proposal in Lucknow University to include CAA and NRC in the curriculum of political science department studies, the deputy chief minister said: “Universities are autonomous organisations and it is their duty to impart good education by including contemporary issues.”