Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Police have detained Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena president Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga on Monday outside the NIT campus, when he tried to enter the campus. “The HRD Ministry is looking into the grievances of the outstation students and I am hopeful it will be resolved soon”.
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Dr A B Leman, dean students’ welfare at the NIT, confirmed students had left the campus as per their parents’ request.
An “anti-national” and “provocative” Facebook post over the NIT -Srinagar issue by a Kashmiri student led to a scuffle between a group of Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students at a private college here on Tuesday.
To a question that many outstation students had not appeared in the examination that began yesterday, she said “Some students were not prepared for exams”.
“The local students abused a group of Kashmiri girl students and termed them terrorists and supporters of Pakistan”, a group of Kashmiri students told CNS over phone.
They held a demonstration at the Anu chowk and thereafter the Gandhi chowk and asked the central government to provide protection to the students of NIT, Srinagar who were being “tortured” for no fault of theirs. He said one of the detained person has been identified as Tejinder Singh Bagga.
“For the last three years, we were being harassed by the local faculty and administration every day”. Non-local students were angry with locals cheering Andre Russell’s winning runs against India in Mumbai. Educational institutions also remained closed in Srinagar and elsewhere. They are our responsibility and we know how to take care of them.
The NIT campus in Srinagar was locked down for several days following clashes between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students where anti-India slogans were raised when India lost to the West Indies in the T20 cricket World Cup semi-final game.
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Since then, the situation on campus has deteriorated with outstation students demanding the campus be shifted out of Srinagar after police allegedly thrashed hundreds of non-Kashmiri pupils chanting Bharat Mata ki Jai and waving the Tricolor. Nearly a week ago, the HRD Ministry had sent a team of two officials to douse the situation and take stock of what actually happened.
