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| Students in Jammu boycott classes for 3rd day against 'objectionable' slogans by Kashmiri passengers | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 14: Hundreds of college students here boycotted classes and held protests for the third consecutive day Thursday against "objectionable" slogans allegedly raised by some stranded Kashmir-bound passengers. On Monday, a scuffle had broken out between a group of students and some of the stranded passengers outside the Gandhi Memorial Science College here but timely intervention by police had brought the situation under control.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) units of different colleges of Jammu continued their protest demanding strict action against the persons who raise anti-national slogans in GGM Science College premises on Monday and against the police officers who lathicharged on the nationalist students.
ABVP unit of Gandhi Nagar Women College led by ABVP Jammu Mahanagar Joint Secretary Sonali Vaid along with other students of college boycotted their classes following which thousands of girls started march towards GGM Science College. Police tried to crush the agitation by planting barbed wires near Bikram Chowk but they failed to stop them and girls crossed the barbed wires and gathered in the premises of GGM Science College and raised slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Matram.
Activists of ABVP in Women's College Parade along with other students led by ABVP Jammu Mahanagar Joint Secretary Komal Mengi boycotted the classes and held strong protest demonstration against the anti-nationalist forces. During this protest college administration closed the College gate to stop the girls from doing protest. After that students of Gandhi Nagar Women College and GGM Science College reached the Parade Women College in shape of a rally and gathered outside Women College Parade. The girls of Gandhi Nagar College entered the college forcefully and taken the girls out with them and then again marched towards GGM Science college where they unfurled the National Flag on the top of Mufti Mohammad Boys Hostel.
The clash had taken place when the students came out of the college to protest the alleged chanting of "pro-Pakistan" and "anti-India" slogans by some of the stranded passengers while protesting the alleged failure of the administration to help them in the hour of crisis. Students of various collages like the Gandhi Memorial Science College, Maulana Azad Memorial Post Graduate College and others boycotted their classes and and held protests in Parade, Canal Road, Jewel Chowk, Tawi Bridge and Bikram Chowk areas Thursday.
The sit-ins by students led to heavy traffic jams on major roads in the city. Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Tejinder Singh said action would be taken if anyone was found involved in raising "anti-national" slogans.
A student, Sonali, said they are demanding that a case should be registered against the passengers for raising "anti-India" and "pro-Pakistan" slogans. We are raising pro-India slogans and demand action against the people involved in raising objectionable slogans, but police is cane-charging the Pro-India students, the students said.
They said they will continue to boycott their classes till action is not taken against those who raised the slogans. Hundreds of Kashmir-bound passengers, including students, are stranded in Jammu following the closure of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway over the past seven days owing to heavy snowfall and rains which triggered multiple landslides. |
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