Hyderabad tells a different story through anti-CAA protest

S M Fasiullah Hyderabad: The nation is gripped with the fever of constitutionalism in response to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Symptoms are clearly visible right from Delhi to Kerala, Bengal to Maharashtra, and now Hyderabad.
Saturday has been unusual in Hyderabad for its dwellers. A sea of heads flooded the city eventually merging at Dharna Chowk to protest against the CAA. An obvious message was of discontent against the law, which is seen as discriminatory at its face value by large sections of the society including the Muslim community.
Beyond the obvious is another story, which these protestors tell either silently or subconsciously through the #MillionMarch protest. It busts the myth of one-man leadership of the Muslim community of the region and tells how a synergetic and swift response of the civil society was made possible.
One-man vs. many It has been a long-held belief that a powerful politician is the only leader for all problems of the Muslim community in the region. Nothing would happen without his green signal in Hyderabad or beyond. It is rightly so because of his proximity with state government now and in the past too.