{"id":30041,"date":"2026-07-03T04:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/dont-panic-keep-papers-ready-shaheen-baghs-daadis-are-back-this-time-to-help-neighbours-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:54:44","slug":"dont-panic-keep-papers-ready-shaheen-baghs-daadis-are-back-this-time-to-help-neighbours-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/dont-panic-keep-papers-ready-shaheen-baghs-daadis-are-back-this-time-to-help-neighbours-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t panic, keep papers ready\u2019: Shaheen Bagh\u2019s daadis are back, this time to help neighbours | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Don\u2019t panic, keep papers ready\u2019: Shaheen Bagh\u2019s daadis are back, this time to help neighbours\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh\u2019s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete Delhi\u2019s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Six years after Shaheen Bagh became the face of the anti-CAA movement, the neighbourhood\u2019s mosques and community organisations are now helping residents navigate one of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Election Commission<\/a>\u2019s biggest voter verification exercises, spanning over a month, with over 13,000 BLOs visiting households across Delhi\u2019s 70 Assembly constituencies while reassuring those anxious about the process.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Shaheen Bagh\u2019s now-famous \u201cdaadis\u201d, who once sat through Delhi\u2019s winter protesting against the CAA, are reminding neighbours to keep voter documents ready.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Bilkis Bano, the 88-year-old Shaheen Bagh protester who became an international symbol of the anti-CAA movement after being named among TIME magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people, currently in her native village in Hapur after the SIR there, told <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">TOI<\/span>: \u201cAge doesn\u2019t allow many of us to go out like before, but we can still help our neighbours. We must check on the elderly and ensure no one misses the BLO\u2019s visit.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Fellow protester Gul Bano, also in her 80s, says she reminds neighbours to keep their \u201cpapers ready\u201d. \u201cSix years ago, we spent months sitting on the roads. Today, we are telling people to cooperate with the BLOs. Our biggest concern is that no genuine voter should be left out.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>\u2018Saira daadi\u2018, from nearby Zakir Nagar, echoed the message. \u201cEveryone should remain alert, but not panic.\u201c <!-- -->She said, \u201cRelatives and friends in Bihar and West Bengal who kept their documents ready faced little difficulty.\u201c<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>In Shaheen Bagh, Batla House and Zakir Nagar, however, the exercise has revived memories of 2019-20, when documents became central to the public debate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>\u201cWe are telling people it\u2019s their duty as citizens,\u201d said Mufti Hisamuddin, the imam of Chand Masjid. \u201cWe will guide people on required documents, helping elderly residents complete the process and ensuring no one misses a BLO\u2019s visit,\u201d he told <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">TOI <\/span>on Thursday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>A few kilometres away, Batla House-based Mufti Khan said residents are anxious about procedural lapses rather than the documentation itself. \u201cElderly people, migrants, daily-wage workers and economically weaker families often do not know whether they possess all the required records or whether old documents will be accepted. Reports of names being removed during similar exercises in Bihar and West Bengal have spread quickly, leaving many uneasy,\u201c he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has begun holding SIR readiness camps across several Muslim-majority localities. \u201cThere is widespread fear that genuine voters could be excluded,\u201d vice-president Malik Motasim Khan told <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">TOI<\/span>. \u201cOur effort is to ensure that people keep their documents ready, cooperate with BLOs, avoid rumours and pursue constitutional and legal remedies wherever necessary.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/dont-panic-keep-papers-ready-shaheen-baghs-daadis-are-back-this-time-to-help-neighbours\/articleshow\/132144631.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Outside Shaheen Bagh\u2019s Chand Masjid, the questions are no longer about protest sites or road blockades, but about booth-level officers (BLOs), enumeration forms and whether elderly parents have the documents they may need.Volunteers say the mosque will set up neighbourhood camps, this time not to mobilise a protest, but to help residents complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}