The university saw students boycott classes and join the JNUSU Office Bearers in hundreds as it marched across the campus demonstrating resolve and commitment towards student struggle.
In light of the recent rustication, out of bounds order and hefty fines to the Office Bearers and a former President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), the university observed a complete strike today. All Schools and Centres observed a shut down demanding that the anti-student order by the administration be revoked, the draconian CPO Manual be revoked, UGC Guidelines along with Rohith Act be enacted, the VBSA Bill rejected, PhD students not be evicted, JNU Vice-Chancellor must resign and the latest attempt at privatising education through the Siddhanta Foundation be kicked out of the campus.
The university saw students boycott classes and join the JNUSU Office Bearers in hundreds as it marched across the campus demonstrating resolve and commitment towards student struggle. Students raised slogans against the latest attack on JNU by attempting to dismantel the union and hampering the studnets’ movement for basic rights and facilities holding the Vice-Chancellor to account. The campus has witnessed intensifying crackdown because not just students of JNU but students across the country began mobilising against the anti-student Supreme Court stay order on the recent UGC regulations. Demanding social justice, the students of JNU began organising themselves against privatisation and casteist forces in the country and government. The Vice-Chancellor, fearing a strong student movement as has been the tradition of JNU and our country at large dismissed the JNUSU Office Bearers to fragment the student struggle and kill unionisation in JNU. JNU remains one of the very few campuses in our country where a strong student movement has existed for decades. The present dispensation fears student unity and the politics of struggle. However, JNU students have for long stood together and fought for student rights. This latest attack would be resisted tooth and nail as well and the spirit of debate, dissent and democracy saved in JNU.
