Gaurav Sarkar gaurav. sarkar@ mid- day. com Days after a committee claiming to represent Mumbai Bagh met home minister Anil Deshmukh and held talks about withdrawing the protest, the women who have been protesting against CAA- NRC- NPR at Morland Road, Nagpada, since January 26, claimed that it was just a group of politicians trying to establish control over them. Addressing a press meet at the venue, the women said that they want to distance themselves from the delegation that had met Deshmukh and that they would continue the protest till demands were met.

Activist Feroze Mithiborwala, along with a few other women, took centre stage while addressing the media around 3 pm on Friday. Mithiborwala said, u201c We are following a Shaheen Bagh type model. The girls and boys of Nagpada had initiated the protest. They are the ones who invited us. When activists get involved, there is a strong desire to implement satyagraha since we are all Gandhian in nature. When we first came and sat here on January 26, the local netas didnu2019t want us around.