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| Two marches from Delhi to NIT Srinagar | | Solidarity with victims of oppression | | ET Report
JAMMU, Apr 9: The gory NIT Srinagar incident, which culminated in injuries to about 100 non-Kashmiri students, has snowballed into a major conflict with angry youth from 12 states of the country, including women, taking up the issue in a big way and deciding to organize march from New Delhi to the NIT Srinagar.
Around 150 students on Saturday embarked on their journey from Delhi to Srinagar to show solidarity with the non-Kashmiri students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jammu and Kashmir, following the unrest at the institute.
Holding the national flags, the youths led by Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena's head Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga commenced the protest march in the morning from Rakabganj Gurudwara here to reach NIT Srinagar.
Bagga in a press statement said, two buses and seven cars have been arranged for the youths participating in "Chalo NIT" rally. They will reach Srinagar on Sunday.
"Seeing the tense situation in Jammu and Kashmir, we will hand over national flag and show that it is not a crime to hoist the Tricolour in the state. We want to show our support to the non-local NIT students who stood up for the nation and were brutally bashed up by the locals and the police," Bagga said in the statement.
Youngsters from various professions like IT, architecture have joined the movement to support the non-Kashmiri students, who have been protesting peacefully in the campus.
They were resorted to severe lathi charge by the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Many will join the rally on the way from Sonipat, Ambala, Panipat and other places during the course of the journey.
"This country has to stay united and fight against anti-national forces. The meaning of nationalism is fading away. We support these youngsters for their endeavour," President of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, Manjeet Singh GK, said.
The Gurdwara management is arranging for the participants' meal.
Another March from Delhi to NIT Srinagar is being led by BJP national secretary R P Singh on Saturday. He, along with another 150 BJP activists, left for Srinagar to show "solidarity" with non-local students of the National Institute of technology (NIT). However, RP Singh told media persons that he is going to Srinagar in his personal capacity and the BJP has nothing to do with the march of solidarity with non-local NIT students.
The march is taking place even as Mehbooba Mufti, who heads a BJP-PDP coalition in the state, said the NIT issue was being "highlighted by certain people with a communal incident". "It is a non-issue and I have conveyed same to the Union Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani during the telephonic conversation," CM Mehbooba said during an interview with ETV.
Meanwhile, Panun Kashmir leaders Ajay Chrungoo and Agnishekhar, apart from several organizations, also took the plunge and unequivocally supported the security concerns of the students of NIT Srinagar. Panun Kashmir leaders extended support to those demanding shifting of NIT outside Kashmir. They said that they recognized that "the police repression and anti-India intimidation of the patriotic students reading in NIT Kashmir is part of a broader fundamentalist and separatist attrition campaign".
They also appealed to Government of India and the political class of India "to recognize that NIT Kashmir is located in a milieu that allowed the genocide of entire Hindu community of Kashmir," and added that "the security concerns of the students fall in the realm of concerns and resistance against a genocidal enterprise which has become only stronger since the expulsion of Kashmiri Hindus".
"The police repression unleashed on the students of NIT Kashmir recently has been also an organized state repression on the nationalist sentiment. It clearly reflects that a significant portion of the state police apparatus in Kashmir has assumed a brazen anti-national tendency," they said, adding "it is time for the Government of India to take notice of this most alarming development where organs of the administration have started identifying clearly with anti-India sentiment in the state". |
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