Fraternity slams Jamia admin's unjust, repressive actions aagainst students
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Jamia Millia Islamia University (Image : PTI)
New Delhi: Youth organisation, Fraternity Movement came down heavily on the administration of Jamia Milia Islamia University over its unequal treatment of different sections of students and condemned its unjust and repressive actions against student organisations.
In a press release on Friday, Fraternity Movement National General Secretary Aysha Renna said that the administration is exercising utter double-standard, extending support to a “Hindu nationalist student wing” while targeting Fraternity Movement leaders for exercising their constitutional rights.
She condemned the Jamia administration harassment and intimidation of students who expressed dissent, issuing show-cause notices and pressure by HODs or PhD supervisors.
Renna noted that the administration attempted to thwart students holding a demonstration to commemorate the violence and police brutality on December 15, 2019. The Delhi police had unleashed an attack on students who protested the draconian Citizenship Amendment Act bill that year. The administration attempted to block the commemoration event by closing the campus, citing maintenance, Aysha said.
The students bypassed this and gathered to hold the event, but the administration attempted to evacuate them using heavy police deployment, Rapid Action Force, riot control vehicles, etc. and intended with the intention to detain students.
Renna pointed out that the administration openly welcomed RSS-affiliated student organisation ABVP and its national leaders into the campus on November 29, 2024. Also, during Diwali celebrations in October this year, outsiders entered the campus and hurled communal slurs at hijab-wearing students, which the Jamia students questioned, leading to a scuffle, she said. Instead of taking action against the outsiders and addressing the real issue, police registered FIRs against many Jamia students.
She concluded that the Jamia administration and the state must realise that dissenting voices cannot be silenced.
“You may witch-hunt and suppress a hundred voices, but a thousand will rise to challenge tyranny,” and the spirit of Jamia students cannot be curbed through such a stance.