New Delhi: A protest meeting on “Where is Najeeb?” was organised by United against Hate at Jantar Mantar yesterday afternoon.
Najib’s mother, Nafisa-ji, and Tabrez Ansari’s wife, Gauri Lankesh’s sister and Subodh Singh’s wife spoke on the occasion.
JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, Professor Apurvanand, activist Umar Khalid, author Arundhati Roy, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, teacher leader Nandita Narain and student leaders from Jamia Millia, JNU, DU, Jamia Hamdard, UAH and SIO also addressed on the occasion.
A large number of students from different Universities of Delhi joined the protest. They also raised slogans against the authoritarian regime and called for unity of all democratic, secular forces.
According to Counter Currents, the speakers expressed their resolve to take the movement against Najib’s disappearance forward to its conclusion. They said the case of Najib symbolised the ruthless attempt to change the environment of a peaceful unified society into a divisive one pitting one group against the other based on hate and discrimination.