Over JNU campus attack, protests got spread across the country

Thousands across
the country registered their protest after a masked mob attacked students and
teachers and vandalised hostels in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU) on Sunday.

Youngsters, mostly students from different colleges in Mumbai, assembled on the pavement across the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel near the Gateway of India to criticize the violence in JNU.

In the
Capital, at least 500 students and alumni from universities in Delhi protested
outside the old Delhi Police headquarters at ITO on Sunday night after the JNU
attacks.

Protesters,
largely students and teachers from Jamia Millia Islamia, JNU and Delhi
University, claimed the police did not act promptly in stopping the attacks.

They also
alleged that police in plainclothes also assaulted students inside the JNU
campus and demanded immediate registration of a first information report, or
FIR, into the incident. They also shouted slogans against the police and
Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

Students of
the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) also took out a candlelight march on Sunday
to protest the violence at JNU.

They
demanded the masked mob, armed with sticks and stones, which attacked JNU
students and destroyed the property must be arrested. They held the march
inside the campus and ended at its Bab-e-Syed gate.

More than a
dozen students, including the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) president, and a
teacher were injured in the attack last evening.

Members of
JNUSU and JNU Teachers Association (JNUTA) alleged that the attackers were from
the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (AVBP), a charge denied by the
RSS-affiliated outfit.

Students and
teachers said the attack happened at a “peaceful meeting” called by JNUTA and
backed by JNUSU.

Reports said
students blocked a police flag march led by special commissioner of police (law
and order) RS Krishnaiah early on Monday in at least two places inside the
campus.

They blocked
the police at the t-point near Sabarmati hostel but the force managed to dodge
the blockade and continued to march towards the convention centre.

The police
were blocked again by the protesting students and they continued to shepherd
the force towards the North Gate of the JNU campus.