Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UoH), which is spearheading Rohit Bus Yatra and Justice to Rohit alleged that the police were gathering the names of students participating in these programs to frame them in “anti-national’ cases.
Issuing a statement the organization condemned ABVP’s attack on members of Joint Action Committee in Bus Yatra in Telangana. When students for #JusticeforRohith organized a Public Meeting in Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, ABVP disrupted the meeting, attacked the students shouting slogans “Anti- nationals, Khabardar” against Rohith Vemula and the protesting students, the statement said.
“ABVP’s politics has always gone hand in hand with violence and vandalism. ABVP ttacked the protesting students for #JusticeforRohith in Lucknow University, Ambedkar University, Delhi and many other places. In Haryana Central University, ABVP vandalised the candle march that was taken out for #JusticeforRohith,” UoH JAC said.
The organization said the University administration, instead to taking steps to allow these peaceful programs, filed FIR against these students alleging them with carrying out ‘anti-national’ activities.
Stating that the administration had forced the students to give a written letter against conducting any protests in future, the JAC Student members the students Left organization had been attacked by ABVP in Sikar (Rajasthan), Dehradun and Lucknow. In Mumbai, the statement said, more than 10000 people from colleges, bastis and all over the city gathered in a democratic protest for #JusticeforRohith, following which the BJP-led Maharashtra government and the police have filed an FIR against 1500 unnamed individuals charging them with ‘rioting’.
In JNU, according to the JAC, the BJP Sarkar and the Delhi Police witch hunted and targeted students across organizations with charges of sedition. “Compromising on the autonomy of an academic space, the JNU administration gave a free hand to Delhi Police to barge inside campus, illegally raid in hostels, male police officers entered ladies hostels and harassed women students and the larger student community,” the JAC said.
” They have made a list of the student leaders of all organizations who led the struggle for #JusticeforRohith. JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar visited University of Hyderabad and expressed solidarity with our struggle for social justice. For this reason, he was picked by Police in plain clothes and arrested on charges of sedition. Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UoH) is outraged by the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and demands his release immediately and unconditionally,” the statement said.
