We establish yet again there is no organising committee at Shaheen Bagh: Shaheen Bagh protesors on Twitter | Photos (left) from Facebook/SharjeelImam and Twitter/Shaheen Bagh Official

Twitter handle, claimed to be official Twitter account of Shaheen Bagh, Shaheen Bagh Official on Saturday released a statement on comments made by Sharjeel Imam saying "No one person can, whether Sharjeel Imam or someone else, can be termed as the sole organiser of the protest".

Sources have told India Today TV that Sharjeel Imam was among the people who were instrumental in organising the protests at Shaheen Bagh.

Shaheen Bagh's Twitter handle said, "On January 26, 2020, the Shaheen Bagh protest will run into its 43rd day. Shaheen Bagh has seen millions of people join in this battle to protect the democratic and secular fabric of India, and uphold the constitutional ideas of justice, equality, liberty, and fraternity."

"The protest has been led by the women of Shaheen Bagh and it is unfair to associate their voice with any distorted media narrative. We urge everyone to not be influenced by conflicting narratives of any single individual being the 'mastermind' of Shaheen Bagh or any claims made of representing this non-partisan citizen's movement," the handle wrote.

"We dissolve ourselves from any such narratives and establish yet again that there is no organising committee at Shaheen Bagh, no leader, not any one particular organiser," Shaheen Bagh Official's Twitter handle added.

At present, Sharjeel Imam is no longer part of any organising committee where the committee itself 'does not exist' as stated by Shaheen Bagh Official Twitter handle.

"The protest at Shaheen Bagh is to protect the constitutional morality of this nation. No one individual's videos, statements or articles can represent the movement," Shaheen Bagh Official on Twitter wrote.

Shaheen Bagh official statement on comments made by Sharjeel Imam | Photo from Twitter/Shaheen Bagh Official

The video of a controversial speech, allegedly delivered at an anti-CAA protest, has triggered a controversy with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) terming its content as "anti-national" and the Assam government and UP Police filing cases against the speaker.

The speaker, Sharjeel Imam, who is an activist and one of the faces behind the Shaheen Bagh protest, has called for cutting off Assam and Northeast from the rest of India.

The video of the speech has gone viral on social media.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumni and students signed a statment against JNU student Sharjeel Imam's 'divisive speech'.

THE STATEMENT

We, the students and former students of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, condemn the divisive statement of Sharjeel Imam, who studied at the same Centre we went to.

The Indian Constitution and its values are our beacon. We condemn this person's attempt to misuse the anti-CAA protest -- a democratic one at the core -- to push a divisive agenda, as his alleged video suggests.

This is a statement some of us have drafted and signed:

Some TV channels are reporting that a JNU alumnus, Sharjeel Imam, has said that the present anti-CAA movement is capable of "permanently, or temporarily, cutting" the Northeast from India.

The purpose of the legitimate, democratic, protests is exactly the opposite: To keep India socially and territorially a beautiful, harmonious nation.

JNU is a premier national university that has contributed to India by providing the nation its top officials, academics, journalists, scientists and social workers.

We, the students and alumni of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, where Imam studied, reject with all contempt his alleged statement that calls for India to be dismembered.

Each territory within India is an integral part of India. None can separate/partition/cut from the country even an inch of it.

The aim of every democratic protest -- in sync with the vision of the founding fathers of the Republic who gave us our Constitution -- is to make India a better and just nation, thus fulfilling the dreams of iconic figures like Mahatma Gandhi and BR Ambedkar.

JNU stands for a united and harmonious India and we will continue striving for the same.

For us as a community, India remains, and shall remain, indivisible -- both territorially and socially.