Journalist's Encounter with Protesters

When I was reporting at Connaught Place, I saw that there was a Bajrang Dal and Vishwa

Hindu Parishad-related group. One man among them was making a statement against Hindus,

and he was wearing a cap. He had just put on the cap, so

I thought he was Hindu. Some people were saying he was Hindu, but posing as a Muslim,

spreading things against Hindus in a way that would create resentment in this country

against Muslims and make people speak out against Muslims. So, when I was

reporting

on this matter, there were Hindu Parishad, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Bajrang Dal people who

started chanting slogans against me and tried to stop me from reporting. Then I

went near the army, and there was a Delhi Police officer there. I told him,

“Brother, they might beat me up or attack me.”

Please protect me. So that man takes me toward the bus to detain me.

To detain me, then I... Just then, some of my friends arrive, and then he

starts taking me outside. Meanwhile, I see that the crowd

tells that police constable to arrest me. He's a journalist

or some famous person now. Whatever it is, that man whose

responsibility it was to save me instead, at the crowd's behest,

at the violent crowd's behest, detains me and takes me away. Then, when the

crowd chants slogans against me, I chant three slogans: Long live the revolution.

Long live Bhagat Singh. Down with Amit Shah. So, when I was chanting these slogans

from inside that bus, the policeman hit me three times with a baton, so I said, "Why did you hit me with this baton?"

He says, "You're using abusive language." "What abuse

did I use?"

He said, “Why are you chanting ‘Down with Narendra Modi’?”

I said, “If saying ‘Down with Narendra Modi’ is an insult, I’ll say it 300 times, and you

can hit me with three thousand batons, hit me with three thousand batons. Even if you bring a crowd of 300

people, bring as many as you want, pull out my fingernails. But this

I will say this

again and again: “Long live the revolution, long live Bhagat Singh, and Narendra Modi—

down with him.”