NSUI condemns
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 08 2020: The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) Manipur State has vehemently condemned the January 5 violence at Jawaharlal National University (JNU) that left about 30 people including students and teachers injured.

A statement issued by the State president of NSUI Manipur today expressed concern at the incidents of violence happening in various universities across the country "which is becoming a routine process".

It alleged that the recent violence in JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia University, AMU, BHU etc were not simply violence which broke out from the students' fraternity but were "murder attempts on the students by some hidden forces with secret agendas".

Claiming that the violence clearly shows incitement from goons, it asked why the BJP Government is very much against the voices of the students and youths of the country.

It has now become clear that the BJP Government and police have completely forgotten their duties, it alleged, adding that the law enforcing agencies have also failed in all spheres and are now becoming anti-students.

No one should aim for political gains when it comes to matters concerning the students, it cautioned, adding that trying to push politics into the educational institutions is a great matter of shame for the whole country.

Demanding the authority to find the culprits responsible for the JNU violence and to strictly punish them as per the law, NSUI Manipur alleged that the goons beat up the students, damaged properties and vandalised the premises but the police deployed around the campuses did nothing to stop them in time.

"The police only knows how to harass and beat the students in the name of maintaining law and order," it alleged, claiming that the violence was an attack on the ideas and values of democracy.

The Government must protect the interest of the students and listen to their voices.

Allegations and counter-allegations will never be a lasting solution.

The Government must find a constructive positive solution if it wants to truly maintain law and order and a peaceful academic atmosphere in the educational institutions, it said accusing the Government of suppressing voices of students and youth.

"When students come out in streets, when they agitate peacefully, raising their voices of discontent, the Government should have the capability to listen...

Attacking their own children, their own sons and daughters, this Nation is trying to please and comfort the foreigners by betraying their own citizens," said NSUI hinting at police crackdowns on many protests against CAA.

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