Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor praised student activist Neha Bora for her “manifest courage” after meeting her at the INDIA bloc’s March for Democracy in New Delhi on Monday, sharing a selfie with her on X.
Bora, the national president of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), has emerged as one of the prominent faces of recent anti-CEC demonstrations in the national capital.
The protest targeted Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and opposed the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Bora has become one of the most visible faces of a protest movement challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, following a crackdown on demonstrations led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and other groups. “I am in detention.
The 29-year-old PhD scholar marched alongside Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during the INDIA bloc’s march to the Supreme Court. She traces her political journey to theatre and later to the student-led protests against a citizenship law in 2019 and 2020, Reuters reported.
Bora has said she did not initially set out to become an activist. The movement is not,” she said in a video posted online, urging those stopped by police to protest wherever they were. She was released later on Saturday.
