LUCKNOW: Tina Yadav, the 14-year-old daughter of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, was seen participating in an anti-CAA rally here a few days back.
Tina reached the Clock Tower on Sunday, where hundreds of women were sitting on protest against the citizenship laws, and spent time talking to the women.
She was accompanied by her friends. Since she is still not a well known celebrity, no one noticed her presence. It is only when her photo went viral on Tuesday that the matter came to light.
Sources said that since some of Tina’s friends were a part of the protests, she had gone to meet them and even sat with them for some time.
This is the first time that the former Chief Minister’s children have participated in a political event and that too on their own.
About 50 women began the sit-in demonstration against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) but the crowds swell each passing day and the protest became “indefinite.”
Women, children, and senior citizens joined the protest and several organisations also came out in their support.
Protests broke out in different parts of the country against and in support of CAA which exclude Muslims, grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.