In a statement, Geelani condemned the “brutal attacks” on Kashmiri students by people having “BJP backing”, “The NIT incidents and the way Indian media has been continuously projecting the issue has made the life of our students and business community a hell”, he said.
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Students will hold another round of deliberations with Nirmal Singh, state education minister, Naeem Akhtar, three-member team of ministry of human resource development (MHRD), director of NIT Srinagar and other senior civil and police administration officials later on Sunday.
Sources said the authorities didn’t want the issue to be politicised further since local and outstation students at the NIT clashed over India’s loss to the West Indies in a T20 World Cup match last month.
VEHICULAR TRAFFIC on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained disrupted for almost four hours on Saturday as college students blocked the road at Jakheni near Udhampur in protest against alleged intimidation of non-Kashmiri students at NIT-Srinagar.
Students from four local colleges on April 9, 2016 blocked the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district. “But the police resorted to lathicharge on the unarmed students from many states of Bharat”, he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday said the NIT stalemate should end as most of the demands of the protesting students have been accepted. “Force is being used against them and they want to leave the campus as soon as possible because they are not safe there”, Mahesh Chand Sharma, whose son is studying in the NIT Srinagar said today. “Our demands are for ensuring the safety of our academics”, another student said. “Even some non-local students are not happy with the present mess and they just want peace in the Institute”, the local students said.
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The students also claimed that Section 144 has been imposed on the campus denying them permission to protest. Security has been tightened at the NIT Srinagar. This was opposed by some outstation students, triggering unrest and clashes. Referring to the non-local students, APHC (G) said they should not demand installing of tricolor on the premises of the institution as it was not acceptable to the people of Jammu Kashmir.
