DESAM, ATSUM decry assault of students
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 02 2016:
DESAM and ATSUM have condemned the physical assault of two students in connection with the election of CC Hr Sec School Students' Union.
Speaking to mediapersons at Keishampat office of DESAM this afternoon, Joseph Hmar alleged that some people who were said to be volunteers of AMSU assaulted two students in the presence of security personnel and school authority.
Of the two victims, Tongkhohao Tuboi has been discharged from Raj Medicity but Lenkhohao Vaiphei is still undergoing treatment at JNIMS.
It was DESAM volunteers who took the injured students to the hospital, Joseph said.
AMSU volunteers allegedly took two students captive on August 19.The authority concerned need to take up befitting action against all the culprits in order to avoid such incidents in future.
In view of the restive situation prevailing in the State, student bodies should choose the path of negotiation and reconciliation rather than indulging in violence, he continued.
see a student body like AMSU indulge in violence, false propaganda and investment of money in the election of student unions.
Joseph went on to ask if there was any meaning for holding student union elections if such elections turn out to be a source inter-community conflicts.
DESAM president Arambam Angamba said that they were deeply concerned about the physical assault on two students in uniform allegedly by AMSU volunteers.
Assaulting the students and leaving the injured students lying on the ground without giving any attention is'something inhuman, Angamba said.
Violence and untoward incidents have become a regular feature of elections for college/school student unions.
The untoward incidents happen regularly due to direct or indirect involvement of student bodies in these elections.
He then appealed to all student bodies to refrain from indulging in violence and also from using communally provocative words.
He also decried the school authority's failure to take up adequate security measures despite the lurking apprehension about possible outbreak of such untoward incidents.
If the two injured students are further subjected to any sort of harassment, the school's Principal, the election committee and AMSU should be held responsible, Angamba added.