AMU students march for JNU

Students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Tuesday took out a protest march against alleged police excesses at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus even as they condemned the anti-national slogans raised during the JNU protest.

Carrying placards, protesters raised slogans and later sent a memorandum to the President demanding an inquiry into the “role of RSS-linked organisations in fomenting trouble in different Indian universities”.

President of AMU Teachers’ Association Prof Mujahid Beg said they were “behind the JNU community in this hour of trial”.

Protesters alleged that by pressing serious charges of sedition against JNU students, the Delhi police is “playing into the hands of RSS outfits in total disregard to the irreparable damage they are causing to the country’s social fabric.”

Foreign scholars extend support Over 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Cambridge, have come out in support of JNU students.

A joint statement signed by 455 academicians from global universities, said, “JNU stands for a vital imagination of the space of the university — an imagination that embraces critical thinking, democratic dissent, student activism, and the plurality of political beliefs. It is this critical imagination that the current establishment seeks to destroy. And we know that this is not a problem for India alone. Similar attacks on critical dissent and university spaces are being attempted and resisted across the world.”