Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday urged voters in Delhi to press the EVM button with such “anger” that the “current” is felt in Shaheen Bagh.

Delhi will vote in the Assembly elections on February 8. The results will be announced on February 11.

Addressing an election meeting at Babarpur in the capital, Shah said: “When you press the button on February 8, do so with such anger that its current is felt at Shaheen Bagh.”

A large number of women, most of them mothers and grandmothers from the neighbourhood, are sitting on a street in Shaheen Bagh for over a month now in the longest continuous protest against the new citizenship matrix.

The peaceful protest has inspired many others in different cities across the country. The women have been urging the Prime Minister to come and hear them out and have said they will not move till the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is taken back.

On Sunday, Shah said a vote for the BJP would ensure there were no Shaheen Baghs.

Reacting to him, Congress leader P. Chidambaram said only those who despise Mahatma Gandhi would want to “get rid of Shaheen Bagh”.

“Home minister seeks votes to ‘get rid of Shaheen Bagh’. Only those who despise Gandhiji would want to get rid of Shaheen Bagh. Shaheen Bagh represents the essence of Mahatma Gandhi. Getting rid of Shaheen Bagh amounts to getting rid of Ahimsa and Satyagraha,” Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.