“We are confining the outstation students to their hostels and are allowing them to their classrooms”.Mr. Kejriwal tweeted that the BJP was beating those “chanting Bharat Mata ki Jai” in Kashmir, while doing the same against those “who are not” raising the slogan in the rest of the country.
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“We have assured them that these demands would be immediately met”, the deputy chief minister said after meeting the student representatives. “We will fight for your right to education anywhere in India without any fear of violence looming over your head”, the Pandit group said.
On April 5, the police had lathi-charged protesting students.
The students blamed the tension at the NIT for not taking the exams. Exasperated by it, the outstation students who outnumber the locals allegedly attacked them, leading to clashes and closure of the campus for students for four days.
According to reports, the protesting students put forth a demand before the college administration as well Union ministry for HRD today, in which they wanted the all academic activities and Minor Exams in NIT to be deferred till normalcy returns.
The sources said the eight members of Governing Board, also comprising officials from the HRD ministry and the state government, were apprised of the current situation and incidents that had taken place last week after India lost the T-20 world cup semi-final cricket match to West Indies.
The local police, accused of thrashing outstation students, is virtually invisible.
With regard to the demand of the non-local students to punish policemen who carried out a baton charge on 4 April, Singh said a magisterial probe into the unrest has been ordered.
The students told media men that they were holding peaceful protests outside Humanities Block when varsity staff and police snatched identity cards of the students.
Soni after speaking at a rally of her party workers here told reporters, “We want an impartial judicial inquiry which will establish what went wrong on the campus, why it happened and on whose orders did it happen”.
The government in-fact has officially come out with a statement that they were doing everything they can to hold such protests.
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The 61-year-old actor was on Sunday stopped at the Srinagar airport by the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to prevent him from visiting the NIT Srinagar campus.
