All students' bodies except ABVP protest for 12 demands to meet VC, cops remove 44 protesting students from campus
Jaskaran Singh | TNN | Feb 28, 2019, 21:36 IST
NEW DELHI: Several students' bodies in Kurukshetra University (KU) have joined hands to protest for their 12 demands related to campus except for the ABVP and others of its supporting bodies. The students have been protesting from past one month and on February 28, all the opposition bodies of ABVP joined hands and demanded to meet KU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr Kailash Sharma to handover the memorandum of demands.
The protesting students allege that they were not allowed to meet the VC rather 44 of them were detained from university campus by the district police. KU SHO inspector Satish Kumar said, “The students were attempting to forcibly enter the office of VC, therefore they were removed from outside VC office. The students were later released after verifying their names and courses. We have not taken into custody any of the protesting students.”
Omkar Chauhan, president, KU Campus Students Executive Council (KUCSEC) said, “We had approached the protesting bodies to file their demands through the elected students' council but they are denying our existence by saying that we do not give any accreditation to the elected council. They want to meet VC directly after bypassing students' council.”
Shahnawaz of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) said, “We just want to meet the VC with a memorandum of our demands but the administration did not allow us to meet and today 44 students were detained from the university campus by the district police. We have never accepted the elected students' council as it was elected through indirect elections and our bodies did not participate in those elections, therefore we wanted to meet the VC directly.”
Dr Pawan Sharma, dean student welfare said, “The student elections in the state were resumed after a gap of 22 years on the demand of all the student bodies. After elections, KU has a democratically elected student council which belongs to all the students of the university. If any students or their bodies have any demands they must approach the university through the elected council only. The VC had given time to the protesting bodies, but they did not turn up on that day. Now they are demanding to directly meet him despite when the university has an active student council, which is inappropriate. Politics is being played in the name of demands.”
Protesting bodies include National Student Union of India (NSUI), Indian National Students Organisation (INSO), Dr Ambedkar Students Front of India (DASFI), SFI, Ambedkar Students Welfare Association (ASWA), Punjab Students Union (PSU), and Swaraj.
The protesting students allege that they were not allowed to meet the VC rather 44 of them were detained from university campus by the district police. KU SHO inspector Satish Kumar said, “The students were attempting to forcibly enter the office of VC, therefore they were removed from outside VC office. The students were later released after verifying their names and courses. We have not taken into custody any of the protesting students.”
Omkar Chauhan, president, KU Campus Students Executive Council (KUCSEC) said, “We had approached the protesting bodies to file their demands through the elected students' council but they are denying our existence by saying that we do not give any accreditation to the elected council. They want to meet VC directly after bypassing students' council.”
Shahnawaz of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) said, “We just want to meet the VC with a memorandum of our demands but the administration did not allow us to meet and today 44 students were detained from the university campus by the district police. We have never accepted the elected students' council as it was elected through indirect elections and our bodies did not participate in those elections, therefore we wanted to meet the VC directly.”
Dr Pawan Sharma, dean student welfare said, “The student elections in the state were resumed after a gap of 22 years on the demand of all the student bodies. After elections, KU has a democratically elected student council which belongs to all the students of the university. If any students or their bodies have any demands they must approach the university through the elected council only. The VC had given time to the protesting bodies, but they did not turn up on that day. Now they are demanding to directly meet him despite when the university has an active student council, which is inappropriate. Politics is being played in the name of demands.”
Protesting bodies include National Student Union of India (NSUI), Indian National Students Organisation (INSO), Dr Ambedkar Students Front of India (DASFI), SFI, Ambedkar Students Welfare Association (ASWA), Punjab Students Union (PSU), and Swaraj.
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