Last Updated on December 16, 2019, 3:37 AM AST by Anthony Morris
More than one hundred students are battle-scarred in India when baton-wielding police charged at them and dismissed tear gas at two federally-run universities wherever students were holding anti-citizenship law protests. People around India are protesting against the newly launched Citizenship bill.
Students in capital New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and province state’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) had been complaintive since the new law was passed last week.
The controversial law grants citizenship to non-secular minorities – Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians – from neighbour Asian nation, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Afghanistan, provision critics say violates India’s profane constitution.
Police grate tear gas as city protesters objurgate citizenship law.
In South city on Sunday, residents joined the JMI students as they tried to march towards Parliament to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the citizenship law.
Clashes erupted when police tried to disperse the demonstrators as they reached the Sarai Julena space close to the university field, with buses and personal vehicles assail hearth.
The police then stormed the JMI and dismissed tear gas into some lecture rooms. Indian media reports stated that students praying at a masjid were additionally attacked.
Nearly one hundred students were detained following the violence, though as per university authorities, the scholars didn’t participate within the burning of vehicles.
JMI Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar also backed the students, saying she was “hurt by the way my students were treated”.
The detained students were released in the first hours of Monday following numbers of activists and students from other New Delhi universities opposed in front of the Delhi Police quarters.
Solidarity demonstrations were also recorded from university faculties across the country in the wake of the police action.
Similar situations erupted at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh state of India where police used tear gas and attacked students with sticks.
Anthony Morris covers stories related to politics and regional developments. His in-depth reporting about governance and reforms makes him stand out in regional journalism, with a deep analysis of political trends and their impact on Caribbean communities.
