New Delhi, January 8: Surya Rajappan, the girl who shouted "We reject CAA" and displayed anti-CAA banner along with her flatmate from the balcony of her rented room during Home Minister Amit Shah's Lajpat Nagar rally, has been forced to vacate the flat she was living in. The girl also said that a crowd had collected which tried to threaten her and her flatmate after they protested against the CAA during Home Minister Amit Shah's visit. BJP's CAA Awareness Campaign: Amit Shah Distributes Pamphlets in Lajpat Nagar, Meets Sikh Refugees From Afghanistan.

Recalling the incident, Surya Rajappan wrote that, “When we became aware of Shah’s pro-CAA rally, we exercised our constitutional and democratic right to protest. As a common citizen, this was the perfect opportunity for me to register my dissent in front of the Home Minister. I believe that if I had failed to do so, I would have failed my own conscience.” Anti-CAA Protests: Over 200 Detained During Protest Outside UP Bhawan in Delhi Against 'Police Atrocities'.

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“My flatmate and I displayed a banner from our balcony, just as the rally led by Shah was passing through our lane. The banner read: Shame; CAA and NRC, crossed out; Jai Hind; Aazadi and #NotInMyName. A conscious decision was made on our part to ensure that there were no derogatory words or phrases," she mentioned in her statement.

She then narrated how they faced the fury of the mob after Home Minister Amit Shah's visit. "A mob of around 150 collected on the street below our apartment. The protest banner was torn and taken away. A group forced their way up the stairs which lead to our residence and threatened to break down the door if we did not let them in. Not anticipating such a strong and violent reaction, we feared for our lives and safety and locked ourselves into our home, while they kept violently banging at our door and shouting until the police intervened,” she wrote.

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