Student bodies, CPI decry attack at JNU
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 07 2020:
Six student bodies have vehemently condemned the attack carried out by armed, masked men who are said to be members and supporters of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi on January 5.A joint statement issued by AMSU, MSF, DESAM, KSA, SUK and AIMS remarked that it is a matter of shame for the Government of India it could not control such a heinous crime which took place within the campus of the reputed university located at the National capital.
Even as JNU students appealed to the security deployed within the university campus to control the acts of violence and vandalism, they (security) maintained that they could not act without order from the authority concerned.
Such attitude of the security personnel is highly condemnable, decried the student bodies.
It was rather surprising that the JNU VC did not allow entry of even police within the campus whereas a large number of hooligans armed with clubs and iron rods entered the university campus, assaulted a number of hostellers including girls and they did not spare even teachers who dared to intervene.
The hooligans also blocked ambulances called for taking injured students to hospitals.
Moreover, they snatched and damaged cameras and other belongings of media persons who came to cover the acts of violence.
Decrying that such violence of extreme nature is not permissible in any civilized society, the six student bodies demanded a thorough enquiry and exemplary punishment for all the culprits.
Meanwhile, the Manipur University Students' Union (MUSU) too has condemned the brutal assault on the teachers and students of JNU including its students' union president Aishe Ghosh.
A press release issued by MUSU recalled that the sanctity of MU was violated when a large number of police and other security personnel unleashed brute force against hostellers and teachers in the midnight of September 21, 2018.Saying that presence of Assam Rifles camp within MU campus had been a source of anxiety to all students, the MUSU called upon one and all to come together and face the enemies of student community collectively.
It also conveyed solidarity to the students and teachers of JNU.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the CPI have also strongly condemned the attack on JNU.
ABVP appealed to the larger student-community to extend its support to the resistance against left-radicalism.
Up-to-the-minute developments have put the spotlight squarely on the unsettling role played by the JNUSU president in actively facilitating the illegal ingress of saboteurs into the JNU campus, ABVP alleged, claiming that ABVP activists have been distinctively targeted by way of indiscriminate stone-pelting and cold-blooded caning, leaving twenty-five of them critically wounded.
The agitprops have miserably failed to even remotely establish ABVP's association with the violence.
On the contrary, most of the phoney defamatory materials insinuating ABVP's involvement have been successfully traced back to spurious WhatsApp groups, created and managed by the Indian National Congress.
Such mischief must be unequivocally condemned by every right-thinking citizen, it added.
While the original perpetrators of violence have given an archetypal spin to this sordid episode of savagery, the primary victims are being wrongfully and dishonestly represented as the aggressors, it mentioned adding that it was ABVP that had made the first request for police emergency services.
Nidhi Tripathi, National General Secretary, of ABVP, expressed "The attack on ABVP activists studying in JNU is morally reprehensible.
All students are startled by the Left's vicious attempts to terrorize everybody into submission.
We earnestly request the Delhi Police and JNU Administration to take all possible measures to bring the situation on the campus under control, assuage the concerns of the traumatized students, and ensure everyone's safety" .
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