Books, not batons. Dialogue, not brutality.
The assault on peacefully protesting students at Jantar Mantar is an assault on India's future and the very spirit of democracy. Students deserve justice, not repression.
#DharmendraPradhanResign#संसद_मार्च#CJPProtest
SIO of India’s national leadership, along with its cadre, gathered at Jantar Mantar in solidarity with the Parliament March called to protest the Union government’s policies and actions in the education sector.
It is deeply shameful that the Delhi Police resorted to lathi-charge and tear gas to disperse peacefully protesting students. Several students were injured in the police action, while many others were arbitrarily detained.
We strongly condemn this blatant display of state high-handedness. At a time when Parliament is in session, the entire nation is witnessing how this government is responding to the legitimate democratic demands of thousands of students - with force, intimidation, and repression instead of dialogue and accountability.
We stand in unwavering solidarity with every student who has taken to the streets in defence of education. We demand the immediate release of all detained students, accountability for the police violence, and a sincere engagement with the concerns raised by the students.
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Riot police are seen allegedly trying to make journalists delete videos showing police action against protesters, while an officer appears to attempt to snatch a YouTuber's microphone.
Watch:
A sixteen year old protester, Karan, breaks down after being lathi charged by Delhi police.
The reporter says, He was shaking. He said he's not crying because of the pain but because he's in shock and disbelief.
"Mere upar lathi charge hua, I can't understand ke meri galti kya hai, meri galti yahi hai ki Mai desh ka bhala chahta hun aur isi liye mujhe dande maare ja raha hain. This is not fair at all...."
this was around 2 in the noon. met so many young people today who were genuinely puzzled with why they were being met with tear gas shells and lathis. for the massive crowd that turned up, this was by and large peaceful and disciplined. highlight of the day for me was a delhi police SI I met who said he’s dropped his brother off at the protest — said ‘maine bola hat na mat’. Government will get away by making it about the police vs people but it is simply not that.
THIS is the training that Modi Govt is providing ?!
Person is standing still while being whipped with a heavy duty polycarbonate stick.
YET it slips it out of his hands??
If you want to keep crushing citizen voices - you’ll have to train your guards to be brutality efficient.
I have covered every major mass movement of the past decade, but nothing comes close to what I witnessed at the CJP today. Every road leading to Sansad Bhawan.
Watch these two minutes. Live Lathi charge, tear gas
Recorded at 4 pm today,within a 1 km radius of Jantar Mantar.
A handwritten note from Sonam Wangchuk, sent through his wife Geetanjali, who has shown remarkable courage and quiet dignity throughout this ordeal—even when Sonam spent more than six months behind bars on charges that ultimately couldn’t stand up in court.
Whatever your views on his demands, it is difficult to understand why a much feted Ladakhi activist who has devoted his life to the welfare of his people should be treated as if he were an ‘enemy of the state’.
We keep blaming whatsapp University, But no, These uncles rely on Indian News Anchors like Rubika Liyakat, Sudhir choudhary, Aman Chopra, Anjana Om Kashyap Ameesh Devgan and several others.
Location: Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
BJP leader Sanjay Singh Chauhan harassed a Muslim youth by accusing him of praying. The youth had come to Rishikesh AIIMS to visit his grandmother. From there, he went to his uncle Hafiz Danish's house to freshen up, where the BJP leader harassed him by accusing him of praying.
SIO Maharashtra South joined a peaceful protest at CSMT in solidarity with the Jantar Mantar movement.
We strongly condemn the detention of student activists, including an SIO State Secretary.
Democracy must protect dissent, not suppress it.
Universities in India have been systematically dismantled, students have had their futures destroyed, and institutions serving marginalised communities have been systematically targeted for years. JNU, AMU, TISS were never isolated incidents; they were chapters of the same story. If we speak up today on the hunger strike by Sonam Wangchuk and other students, the draconian use of power to silence the protests, let it not be because this is finally a "safe" issue to support, but because we recognise the pattern and understand that an attack on one student's right to education is ultimately an attack on everyone's.