JNUSU Protests Against VC After Being Debarred From Attending Statutory Body’s Meetings

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The bitterness that exists between the students union and the administration of Jawaharlal Nehru University is once again out in the open as the members of JNUSU carried out a protest today in the campus since the union has been barred by the authority to take part in any statutory body’s meeting.

According to the students, the decision came in the wake of JNUSU’s participation in the 143rd Academic Council’s meeting where the proceeding became violent when the student were “physically heckled” by faculty members who batted for VC Jagadeesh Kumar when they raised their voice for issues that concerned the students and an UGC notification which they alleged not only resulted in curtailing of seats but at the same time revoked their deprivation points and the viva voce almost the prime criterion for final admission.

Since they have been stopped from attending statutory body’s meeting, JNUSU has confirmed that it will raise slogans against the authority each time it conducts a meeting or a function.

While speaking to MSMN, one of the students belong to All India Students’ Association (AISA) said that the protest was to make sure that the administration wakes up before it’s too late.

“We have never tolerated any sort of dictatorship and this time too, we will keep on fighting for our rights”, said the anonymous student.

She further said, “The VC must remember that here we study to struggle and struggle to study.”

This is not the first instance when the students union at JNU has took to protesting against Jagadeesh Kumar. The VC’s move of allowing police to enter into the university campus on February 9th this year on the basis of a doctored video that fallaciously projected students raising ‘anti-India’ slogans has been highly criticised by the students, especially who does not have any affiliation with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi parishad (ABVP), the students wing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Another student who participated in the protest today affirmed that the authority cannot dampen their spirits by hanging the sword of tagging them as anti-nationals.

Aiming at the authority he said, “Call us whatever you want to but you can’t run away without fulfilling our democratic demands.”

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