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.