While returning to the airport, his convoy was stopped by three student protestors. The students—Neha Yadav, Rama Yadav and Kishan Maurya—jumped in front of the moving convoy, waved black flags at a police car that was part of the cavalcade, and chanted slogans asking Shah to “go back.” A video clip of the protest, which was widely circulated on social media, shows the police immediately dragging the women away and beating one of them with a baton. The students were arrested, sent to 14 days in judicial custody, but released on bail three days later. All are members of the Samajwadi Party’s student wing.

In an interview in Delhi, Sagar, a staff writer at The Caravan, spoke to Neha Yadav about the reasons for her protest, what she faced after the incident, and the allegations that she had chanted “anti-national” slogans. Yadav is a 24-year-old student currently pursuing a PhD in nutritional science at the Allahabad University. “The police’s aim was to beat us so much that we feel scared to talk against the government again,” she said. “We were beaten because of Amit Shah’s orders.” 

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