On Sunday, protests erupted on campuses across the country against police action against students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University.
Violence erupted at the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday night following a student uproar, sparking clashes with the police due to Jamia’s violence.
By midnight, students of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in Hyderabad, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi and Jadavpur University in Kolkata shouted slogans against the Jamia incident.
Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) also joined Jamia outside the police headquarters in Delhi ITO to protest against the alleged police attack on students at the Jamia campus when they were protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)…
To show solidarity with the students of Delhi, a group of students staged a protest outside BHU’s gate. “We protested against the CAA as it is against Article 14 of the Constitution.
The government should withdraw it. We are with the students of JMI and AMU, who are raising their voice against it, ”said a student of BHU’s BA, a political science.
Dozens of students of Hyderabad, the country’s only Urdu University, expressed solidarity with Jamia and demanded action against policemen entering the campus and resorted to baton-charge on the students, told news agency IANS.
At Kolkata’s Jadavpur University, students marched through the neighborhood at midnight, according to TV reports.
Protests against the CAA in Aligarh, Lucknow, and Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have appealed for peace and harmony, with the protests provoked by vested interests.
“Injustice shall not be done to anyone.” The government is committed to the safety and security of all. However, no one will be allowed to take the law into their own hands, ”the chief minister said in a statement.
Delhi Police said people agitating against CAA set fire to buses and several other vehicles, after which they fired tear gas shells and lathi-charged them to disperse the protesters.
Jamia University said that its students were not behind the violence and that people outside the campus were involved in clashes with the police.
Proctor Wasim Ahmad Khan, head of Jamia Millia Islamia, said the police forcefully entered the university and beat up staff members and students, who were forced to leave the campus.
New citizenship law that favors non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
