After the event featuring Dalit MLA Jignesh Mevani and JNU's Umar Khalid was cancelled at the last minute by the authorities in Mumbai following Bhima-Koregoan protests, young students have decided to take the programme online.
NDTV report confirmed that enraged students have decided to hold an event online, which doesn't need any police permission.
"We will hold the exact same programme online on January 10, with the same speakers," Chhatra Bharti's Sachin Bansode was quoted as saying.
The event -- All India Students Summit organised by the student union Chhatra Bharti-- was supposed to have a session by these two speakers. The event was declined permission on Thursday by the Police without assigning any reason. According to the students, the programme was planned in advance and they had all the permissions, but the police cancelled the event just minutes before it was to begin.
However, reports suggest that the Left-oriented student body meet was cancelled in wake of prohibitory orders imposed in Mumbai and several other districts of Maharashtra following protests by Dalit groups.
Angry students took to the streets protesting the abrupt cancellation, several were seen trying to enter the auditorium. Several protesting students were also detained outside the Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle where the event was scheduled to convene.
All those detained were taken to the Juhu police station.
In a related development, the Pune Police registered an FIR against Mevani and Khalid for their alleged "provocative" speeches at an event in Pune on December 31.
Mevani and Khalid had attended the "Elgar Parishad", an event organised to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon, at Shaniwar Wada in Pune.
Violence erupted in Pune district when Dalit groups were celebrating the bicentenary of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in which the forces of the British East India Company defeated the Peshwa's Army.