NEW DELHI: Protest spread to more campuses across the country where students expressed solidarity with the students of Jamia Milia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University and Delhi University.
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University erupted in protest against the police action on students protesting against the new citizenship law (CAA) in campuses, as students, teachers and researchers burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and took out marches throughout Monday.
Shouting in chorus “Hathe Hathe Comrade, gore tolo barricade (hold hands comrade, build up barricades)”, workers and supporters of the Students Federation of India torched Modi”s effigy and staged a demonstration.
Describing the police action as “state sponsored terrorism”, they chanted: “No NRC, No NPR and No CAB.”
IIMC students threaten hunger strike
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) students on the 14th day of protest against the exorbitant fee structure, here on Monday, planned to launch an indefinite hunger strike from Tuesday.
The IIMC students have been protesting since December 3.
Bhopal held peaceful protest
The protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the NRC have reached Madhya Pradesh with hundreds of protesters gathering at the Iqbal Maidan in the old city area here for a peaceful demonstration on Monday evening.
Students of the Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya (MVM) who organised the protests, held placards demanding scrapping of the act. A large police contingent kept vigil as the protest continued. There have been no reports of any violence.
Students of different colleges in the Madhya Pradesh capital and groups of citizens staged a protest on Monday against the police crackdown on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for opposing the proposed implementation of the new citizenship law.
IIM students, teachers slam CAA
Over 1,000 students and faculty of premier management institutes, primarily the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), have issued a statement against the Citizenship Amendment Act, calling it “discriminatory and violative of the Constitution”.
The online letter, signed and endorsed by as many as 1,053 students and teachers, says: “As citizens and members of the academic community, we write to register our protest at the recent enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.”
The letter is signed by students, alumni and faculty of IIMs-Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Indore, Udaipur, Ranchi, Raipur, Calcutta, amd Lucknow among others, as well as the XLRI and several premier management institutes like FMS Delhi.
This letter marks another strong protest against the CAA as has been seen across the universities in the country.
IISc, North Bengaluru
A group of students from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in north Bengaluru joined an impromptu day-long protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and the equally contentious National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Maharashtra students support Jamia, AMU
Students of the University of Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and political parties and social organisations staged protests on Monday to express solidarity with students of the Jamia Millia Islamia whose campus witnessed violence on Sunday.
The IIT-B students, including many girls, carried torches, banners and posters saying “In Solidarity With Jamia” and silently marched around their campuses peacefully, late on Sunday.
On Monday, some IIT-B students took to social media how they undertook the silent protest despite reportedly being refused permission by the IIT-B authorities.
TISS students, including many women, also took out a procession on Monday and boycotted their lectures to condemn the “brutal violence” against the students in JMI, AMU and the people of the northeastern states.
At the Mumbai University”s Kalina campus, hundreds of students, led by the Chhatra Bharati, also supported the JMI and AMU students and vehemently opposed the CAA/NRC laws.