{"id":70685,"date":"2019-11-19T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=70685"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:27:04","slug":"jnu-students-protest-hostel-fee-hike-continues-ruckus-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/jnu-students-protest-hostel-fee-hike-continues-ruckus-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"JNU students\u2019 protest over hostel fee hike continues, ruckus in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We also appeal to students, who have been victims of brutalities at the hands of the Delhi Police, to join us and share their narratives with the media, so we can together expose the Delhi Police and the Home Ministry,” JNUSU said in its statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The JNU Teachers\u2019 Association has also come out in support and called for a protest against \u201cBrutal Police Assault on JNU students and teachers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has denied any use of force. They may file an FIR, sources suggest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protests on Monday caused traffic snarls in many parts of the cities and brought the capital to a halt. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) briefly closed the gates of its four Metro stations leading to the Parliament in the evening<\/span><\/p>\n

As protesting students who had gathered near the Jor Bagh metro station refused to move, CRPF personnel and policemen in plain clothes used batons to disperse the crowd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Surajit Majumder, secretary of JNU Teachers\u2019 Association, was kicked and caned by two policemen in plain clothes who accused him of instigating students to protest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

V Arun Kumar, a mediaperson, who was covering the protest was also hit on the head.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shashibushan Samad, JNUSU councilor and a visually impaired student whose recitation of Faiz\u2019s <\/span>\u201cLaazim hai ki hum bhi dekhenge\u201d<\/em> during JNUSU elections in September went viral, <\/span>was admitted to AIIMS Trauma Centre in a critical condition after policemen allegedly stamped on his chest with their boots.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the police, around 30 police personnel and 15 students were injured during the protest. While the students alleged that they were lathi-charged by police, top police officials denied having used any force.<\/span><\/p>\n

Delhi Police spokesperson Mandeep Singh Randhawa was quoted as saying \u201cthe students hurt themselves when they were trying to climb on to and break the barricades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“There was no use of water cannons, tear gas shells or batons at any stage of the protest. Women staff was deployed in adequate numbers to deal with female protesters. Apart from 10 companies of CAPF (Central Armed Police Force), around 800 Delhi Police personnel were deployed to handle the protest and ensure the maintenance of law and order,” a statement by the Delhi Police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the students posted pictures and videos of the injured students to contest the police claims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The police took JNUSU representatives to meet the MHRD Joint Secretary, GC Hosur, where they handed their memorandum of demands, including a rollback of the fee hike and sacking of Vice-Chancellor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The remaining students were asked by police to leave the venue after the JNUSU delegation left for the meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The opposition slammed the government and Delhi Police for its brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury in a tweet condemned the police crackdown on the students<\/span>, saying a peaceful protest march to Parliament against the unprecedented fee hikes is being forcibly stopped by the police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aam Aadmi Party\u2019s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh also took to Twitter and said, \u201cIs lathicharge and breaking heads of JNU Students, and leaving them bloodied the humanity of the Delhi Police? When they were thrashed by lawyers, they remembered the dignity of the uniform? Don\u2019t such incidents stain the uniform?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The second day of the winter session of Parliament began with ruckus over JNU protests. The Left and BSP MPs raised slogans in the Lower House. Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswan gave a suspension of business notice in the upper house under rule 267, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) have given\u00a0 Adjournment Motion Notice in Lok Sabha over ‘Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) issue’.<\/span><\/p>\n

TMC and Congress MPs seek to probe into violence against JNU students. Trinamool Congress\u2019 Saugata Roy condemned the lathi charge by Delhi Police against JNU students seeking rollback of the hiked fees. “A high-level investigation is needed into police atrocities against students”,\u00a0Congress\u2019 TN Prathapan said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A day after several JNU students were injured during clashes with the police who prevented them from protesting against the proposed hostel fee hike, the JNUSU will address the media this afternoon at the university\u2019s Freedom Square. Students who were injured when police used batons and force to stop them from marching\u00a0to the Parliament will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17],"tags":[13977,461,13937,13924,2889],"yst_prominent_words":[4017,16010,82794,13938,82842,82841,22382,19615,82850,82846,82847,82843,82851,19525,82849,82844,7253,3820,82697,82848],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/11\/19140237\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-11-18-at-19.09.20.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70685"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=70685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}