Siasat.com
London: The condemnations of police brutality inflicted upon Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University students are not just restricted to the home front. Indian student associations within prestigious learning institutions like Harvard University, USA and Oxford University, England.
A statement of solidarity issued by the University of Sussex – Institute of Development Studies India Society states, “As a group of individuals who have had the privilege to access uninterrupted and non-violent educational spaces, we strongly register our dissent against the demonization of student movements and free-thinking university spaces.”
Standing by the iconic Radcliffe Camera building that houses their campus’ circular library during, Oxford University students held placards that read “Protect the Constitution” and “Shah Modi Nazi Nazi.” The British winter climate didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of those students as slogans like “NRC Ki Yeh Sarkaar, Nahin Chalegi Ab Ki Baar (this NRC-touting government won’t be there any longer)” and “CAA Ki Yeh Sarkaar, Nahin Chalegi Ab Ki Baar (this CAA-touting government won’t fly any longer).”
Similar chants resonated in Hyderabad’s Osmania University that decried the CAA-NRC while asking the government to scrap these schemes. The chant of “Modi Humse Darta Hai, Police Ko Aagey Karta Hai,” which reverberated at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, was also echoed at OU too.
Initially, this uproar from Indian youth remained confined to the domestic sphere, however, this wave of condemnations have travelled to foreign territory.