CPI (ML) staged a protest demanding the immediate release of Dr. Kafeel Khan.

A protest demanding the release of Dr. Kafeel Khan was put on by CPI(ML), Bihar liberation ensuring the lockdown norms in Patna.

A protest demanding the release of Dr. Kafeel Khan was put on by CPI(ML), Bihar liberation ensuring the lockdown norms in Patna.Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), Bihar, activists had staged a demonstration demanding the immediate release of suspended Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan, on July 19, 2020. Dr. Kafeel Khan was arrested in Mumbai by the Special Taskforce Police of Uttar Pradesh on January 29, 2020, for his inflammatory remarks during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in Aligarh.

The recent demonstration was abided by the lockdown norms during the total lockdown imposed in the wake of rising cases of coronavirus, in Patna. The activists had been holding the placards communicating different slogans that demanded his immediate release.

A similar kind of campaign was noticed on the social media platform, Twitter. With over 1 lakh tweets in just over four hours, #ReleaseOurDrKafeel was the top trending hashtag on Twitter in India on July 19, 2020.

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