New Delhi: Former JNU students and activists Umar Khalid and CPI Leader Kanhaiya Kumar and Yogendra Yadav, the founder of Swaraj Abhiyan also joined the march taken out by the people in Delhi on Saturday, 23 November, in support of the students’ protest against the hostel fee hike in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). They were demanding to make education affordable for all.
Starting from Mandi House the protestors marched towards the Parliament. Students’ groups, teachers, activists and workers of Rashtriya Janata Dal and Dalit group Bhim Army participated in the march.
Quint quoted Umar Khalid as saying, “If the committee wants to give recommendations, they should know that the students taking to the streets in large numbers almost every other day is a referendum in itself.”
Asking ‘Is money spent on statues not a waste?’ student-turned-politician Kanhaiya Kumar said, “Why is there a view among the people, especially the tax paying chunk of the population, that money is being wasted? Why is it okay when the money is spent on statues but considered as wasted when it’s spent on education?”