Women in large numbers join Jamia students protest, say ”No more silence”

Dec  17, 2019

New Delhi: The wave of anger against police assault on the jamia University campus, in which even girls hostel was not spared, and against the NRC and CAA continued to gain strength as women of Jamia Nagar today joined the students in large numbers  in their protest which entered the fourth day today.

The air in Jamia Nagar reverbrated with slogans: ”Ab Khamoshi Achchi Nahin'( We will no more remain silent), Tanashahi Nahin chalegi (Down with disctatorship), Jamai, AMU tum sangharsg karo ham tumharesaath hain( We are with you Jamia and AMU in your struggle), ”We want Justice”, ”Take Back NRC, CAA”, as men and women in all age groups spilled on to the road between the two sides of the campus.

Waving the tricolour and clapping, hordes of girls and boys shouted slogans against the government over the NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act.

”Inquilab Zindabad”(Long live the Revolution) was another another slogans that came to their lips frequently as they marched ahead.

The protestors’ slogneering became hysteric as the crowd swelled.

Anti-riot police were deployed in large numbers near the Holy Family hospital from where the Jamia University campus begins, to meet with any contingency. However, the protest were free of any violence and the participants ensured that the traffic was not blocked beacuse of their protest.

Students were also seen clearing the road of the garbage afte their march.

On December 15, a protest organised against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had turned violent when protesters, said to be local residents, set five buses afire and vandalised other vehicles in stone pelting. However, Jamia students and authorities have said that no student of the university was invloved in the violence. Local residents and leaders said that those who indulged in violence were outsiders. Police had broken into the Jamia University campus following the violence and beat up students, including girls, and staff and vandalised the library. It has entered the girls hostel and subjected them to abuses and force.

The Jamia University Administration has demanded a high-level probe into the police action. It had also decided to lodge an FIR against the police, but so far, there was no information that it had done so.

Vice chancellor Najma Akhtar had yesterday, while expressing anguish over the police action said that she will take up the matter at the highest level.

–India News Stream