New Delhi: A woman, identified in reports as rightwing YouTuber Gunja Kapoor, was taken away by police after allegedly visiting the Shaheen Bagh protest site in a burqa and filming protesters on Wednesday.ANI has reported that Delhi Police questioned her for a while.Kapoor has worked at Pahle India Foundation as an analyst — during which time she wrote two articles for The Wire — before quitting and turning her focus to YouTube.She is followed on Twitter by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In her Twitter bio, Kapoor describes herself as the curator of the YouTube channel ‘Right Narrative’. She frequently tweets in support of the BJP and has been photographed with the party brass.Twitter screenshot.NDTV has quoted protesters at the site as having said that Kapoor’s presence grew conspicuous because she was asking “too many questions”. Other accounts on social media have claimed that she had been shouting pro-Pakistan slogans.Upon frisking her, reported the site, a camera was found on her body.#WATCH Political analyst Gunja Kapoor extricated by police after protestors at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh alleged that she was wearing a ‘burqa’ and filming them. #Delhi pic.twitter.com/llRiKhMvOd— ANI (@ANI) February 5, 2020A video shared by ANI shows police taking her away while it appears that a crowd is closing in on her and jostling with police. Another video shared on Twitter shows her sitting down on a chair at the site, while a few women talk to her. Kapoor is reluctant to engage with them in the latter video.Who is @gunjakapoor who was caught secretly filming women of Shaheen Bagh in a Burqa?– Followed by Modi on Twitter (Modi has an eye for such talent)– ‘RW analyst’. Appears on Modia channels defending BJP– Team member of another RW fraud @Shehzad_Indpic.twitter.com/3Gcrm6xvKQ— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) February 5, 2020Most reactions to her sartorial choice have centred around why Kapoor needed to have worn a burqa in the first place, considering that women who do not wear burqas visit the site and film it regularly.The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests at Shaheen Bagh have, in the run up to the Delhi election, captured the BJP’s imagination with particular vigour. The protests are mostly led by local Muslim women.BJP MP Parvesh Verma had called the protesters ‘rapists and murderers‘ while former BJP president and Union home minister Amit Shah has repeatedly brought up the protests in rallies where he alleged Aam Aadmi Party was responsible for them.On February 1, an armed man opened fire at the protest site. The shooter had chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and said, “In our country, only Hindus can have their way, not anyone else.” The Delhi police has claimed that the shooter is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. His family has denied this claim.
