Stu­dents from Guru Nanak Dev Uni­ver­sity Am­rit­sar and Pan­jab Uni­ver­sity Chandi­garh joined the In­dia-wide stu­dents’ ag­i­ta­tion against the newly passed Cit­i­zen­ship Amend­ment Act and the bar­baric beat­ing of male and fe­male stu­dents of Jamia Milia Uni­ver­sity by the Delhi Po­lice. Chant­ing slo­gans against In­dian Home Min­is­ter Amit Shah and Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi, the stu­dents ve­he­mently protested against the di­vi­sive law and de­clared that they will not al­low the func­tion­ing of the Na­tional Reg­is­ter of Cit­i­zen­ship -NRC.

ACTIVISTS OF tivists of Sikh Youth of Pun­jab, Re­search Schol­ars As­so­ci­a­tion, Stu­dents for So­ci­ety, Mool Ni­wasi Stu­dents Or­gan­i­sa­tion, Phule-Ambed­kar Stu­dents As­so­ci­a­tion and Pun­jab Stu­dents Union par­tic­i­pated in a protest sit-in at the Guru Nanak Dev Uni­ver­sity in Am­rit­sar whereas stu­dents from SFS and many other or­gan­i­sa­tions held a mas­sive protest at the Pan­jab Uni­ver­sity in Chandi­garh.

Sikh Youth of Pun­jab pres­i­dent Paramjit Singh Mand, Re­search Scholar As­so­ci­a­tion (GNDU) leader Jatin­der­bir Singh, Stu­dents For So­ci­ety leader Shubhkaramdeep Singh, PSU leader Hard­eep Kotla, Mool Newasi Stu­dents Or­gan­i­sa­tion leader Ad­vo­cate Ankush and Phule-Ambed­kar Stu­dents As­so­ci­a­tion in a spir­ited joint protest slammed BJP led Union Govt for its fas­cist poli­cies and for al­low­ing the Delhi po­lice to cre­ate may­hem in the Jamia Milia Uni­ver­sity by tak­ing law into their own hands.

“In­dia is head­ing to­wards a civil war. Ab­solute power has gone to the heads of the  Modi -Shah duo and the com­pli­ant BJP lead­er­ship. They are act­ing like dic­ta­tors run­ning a tyran­ni­cal regime,” said SYP pres­i­dent Paramjit Singh Mand.

“Is this the way, the so-called de­mo­c­ra­tic state be­haves with stu­dents, study­ing at ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions?” asked, Re­search Scholar As­so­ci­a­tion (GNDU) leader Jatin­der­bir Singh.

“The vi­su­als show­ing the ex­tent of the bar­barism of po­lice chas­ing, beat­ing, hurl­ing abuses on girls and boys of Jamia and AMU Uni­ver­si­ties can put any civilised per­son to shame. It is shock­ing that there is no con­sci­en­tious per­son within the rul­ing party who has the courage to con­demn such das­tardly be­hav­iour,” de­clared a girl stu­dent who was par­tic­i­pat­ing in the protest.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing in a spir­ited protest, mem­bers of SYP said they stand with Jamia and AMU stu­dents and will con­tinue to sup­port their strug­gle for jus­tice. The new law is against mi­nori­ties and must be re­jected. The union gov­ern­ment led by RSS and BJP  is spread­ing its agenda of Hindi-Hindu-Hin­dutva across the coun­try and we will con­tinue our protests to awaken the peo­ple against this.

Ad­vo­cate Ankush said, “It is time for so­ci­ety to speak out against the state tram­pling the rights of the peo­ple and those who do not speak now would be deemed to be com­plicit in this crime be­cause of their si­lence.”

Not only stu­dents from Pun­jab, but stu­dents from across many uni­ver­si­ties in In­dia also have been protest­ing over the last two days against the dra­con­ian law and the shame­ful man­ner in which the stu­dents of Jamia were beaten up.

“Heads must roll and the guilty po­lice con­stab­u­lary and of­fi­cials must be pun­ished for il­le­gal en­try into the Jamia cam­pus,” said Sikh Youth of Pun­jab Pres­i­dent Paramjit Singh Mand.

Every­one who cares for free­dom of ex­pres­sion, democ­racy and equal­ity must re­sist and protest this naked ag­gres­sion and op­pres­sion of the Naren­dra Modi gov­ern­ment.