India, New Delhi -Nollen Fatima, 41 -year -olds are worried about the watches and are waiting for their sons to return from school. She has a rapid number of supporters waiting for her at the corner of her street, and she needs to meet as soon as possible.
When they arrived, she quickly gathered school bags, and before her team stopped her crowdfunding and carried out the voting of her husband, Siffa Ur Lehmanan, Slip into the skinted Abaya and go downstairs.
“Fight for your rights, my husband has been in prison for almost five years,” she says and is nervous and scratches her finger.
In April 2020, Reman, a 48 -year -old human rights activist, accused Delhi Police arrested and mobilized the controversial civil rights law. Critics explain that the law is discriminatory to quickly track the naturalized citizenship for people in neighboring Indian countries if they belong to a minority community other than Islam.
Lehman and Tahill Hussein are another prisoner waiting for his trial in an incident related to riots and demonstrations that erupted in New Delhi in 2020, and to the Indian capital on February 5. It is running in future elections. Killed by 2020 violence, most of them were Muslims.
After a fierce legal battle for five years and dozens of appeals in front of the Indian court, their families are now looking at the Delhi election with the hope of redemption.
“We’ve been treated as gangs and terrorists (since the arrest of Lehman). In this election, we must prove innocence,” Fatima tells Al Jazira. “When we win, people have been imprisoned for years.”
Fatima led a group of women and grows slogan from a handheld speaker through a narrow lane scattered on the walls and a leaked sewer from the era of protests. “How do you answer repression?” She shouts at the top of her voice. “By voting to Sifa!”
“Set the record straight”
When she is conducting a campaign in the Okura constituency in the southeast of Delhi, Fatima reminds me of a dark day since Reman was arrested. Pandemic was the “worst era”, Fatima said.
She remembers the time when her son Jia and Ahachi became ill and had no good hospitals nearby. Now, when she goes to the campaign, she reminds me of not only reminding people of the partner’s imprisonment or the difficulties in pandemic, but also sewage, dusty roads, and collapsed infrastructure.
Rehman and Hussain are competing with a ticket for all India-E-ITTEHADUL MUSLIMEMEEN (Aimim), led by Asaduddin Owaisi. The party is fighting only for these two seats, but Owaisi, the five members of Heidelabad, Southern India, is campaign to gain support for them.
In a one -rally in Rehman, OWAISI collided with the former Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAM AADMI party (AAP), who had been in the capital for 10 years. AAP has won Muslim votes in the last two Delhi elections. However, many of the communities are increasingly facing the accusation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Baratiya Janata (BJP) has grasped the power nationwide and adopted the majority of Hindu religion. I believe they disappointed them. For example, AAP has refused to support those who were imprisoned over protests, supporting the Citizenship Law, which leads to protests in 2020.
“I dare to come to Okla and walk on these,” said Owaishi. “Then he knows how people live here.”
Okra is one of the seven constituents of 70 seats in the 70 -seat parliament, which has a large population to have multiple Muslims or have a significant impact on the results of the elections. Since many analysts predict a close contest between BJP and Delhi’s AAP, these seven seats determine the rules of cities that have a major political impact of India as the capital. It was proven that it was important. Okura has witnessed the dominant AAP, BJP, the Indian Grand Old Party Contents, and the four -co -contests where Amim competes.
AAP refrained from targeting Lehman and Hussein as a personal target, but delved into OWAISI. AAP’s AAP’s AMANATULLAH KHAN, who is sitting on Okla, told Al Jazeera that the entry for Almim’s conflict was “divided Muslim votes and handed a seat to the BJP.” BJP, on the other hand, collided with OWAISI and warned that it would “polarize elections” by nominating candidates accused in riot -related cases.
Fatima walks in a dense market area near Shahen Bug, a hub of women -led demonstration five years ago, to the controversial civil rights law, and approaches restaurants. She tells the elderly man who runs a store to press Lehman’s “Kite” symbol on an electronic voting machine when he voted on February 5.
61 -year -old Nasruddin Shah blesss Fatima and pledges his support. “I need to crush the government’s ROG pride. Sifa is one of us, and he fought for us,” Shah later told Al Jazira.
“Unlike Delhi, we have not voted here to form the government here. We are voting to set the record straight,” Shah says and leaves his store. Add to Fatima.
“It’s overwhelming”
At nearly 25 km (15 miles) at the northeast border, Delhi’s most dense population density is full of election chat. This area is one of the most unmodified things in Delhi, and the black facade of some buildings reminds me of the fire that occurred here during the 2020 protest.
While speaking loudly, the teenager is sitting in a square wooden chair preparing for a political rally.
19 -year -old Shadab Hussein is visibly tired and his throat hurts. But he and others in the room have heard some good news. In late January, the Supreme Court in India allowed his father, Tahill Hussein, for six -day parole from custody to election campaign.
Shadab was the last part of the political rally in 2017, when his father won the local council election. “When I walked with him, I remember that I won the rally. I was only 11 years old,” Shadab sat in his father’s office, his mother Shama Anjum in Hussein. I will visit door -by -door to go to voting.
Hussein had influenced local politics under Kajiwal’s AAP banner. However, the party expelled him after the police blamed him for incigning the riot in 2020.
Shadab says that his father’s absence for the past five years has left his family deep blank. “My father was targeted because he was a Muslim, and for his influence here, Shadab says that the reporters gathered around him.” Through this election, we get dirty. Remove.
The campaign, along with 250,000 voters, focuses on the poor hygiene, water, and overall development of the constituencies, acknowledging that Shadab can be “overwhelmingly overwhelming.”
And the uplifting of Hussein’s parole is immediately relieved by the details of the filter. The Supreme Court restricted Hussein’s parole in the daytime, banned visiting his house, and ordered to return to prison before sunset. Nevertheless, Shadab says, “I’m glad that my father can walk on these streets and be in his people.”
“Never be afraid”
Returning to Okla, the Supreme Court acknowledged Hussein’s custody release, and Lehman’s campaign moved the court with similar restrictions and secured parole the next day.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t weaken it. It’s because Sifa Ur Lehmann wasn’t weak,” said Lehman, rather than looking at his campaign poster. I get off, so I say with a thunder.
“It’s not to win or lose. Prove that we want self -esteem and dignity. We do not bow in front of anyone,” Lehman is surrounded by police officers.
Fatima and children can easily meet him. After that, Fatima and Lehmann perform both campaigns and head in various directions. Unlike Lehman, who explains that she is stubborn with affection, Fatima says she hasn’t really been cut off for a political rally. “I’m not that type,” she says. “But I had to do this.”
This is because, according to her, the election results on February 8 have a deep importance for her. “I want to be able to teach the children so that they can stand up to get up,” she said with tears. “Their father, Sifa, fought for the people, but was called a terrorist.”
She stopped for a long breath and said, “5 years is a very long time. 5 Eeds, 5 Lamba (Ramadan), five birthdays, and without shifa, everyone travels. I can’t see it anymore.
