Student fraternity across the country came out to support students of Jamia Millia University and to protest against the police brutality against the JMI students and citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The police crackdown on protestors followed by beating students and staff has sent shock waves across the country and Delhi police are getting widespread condemnation of their actions. Police action left many students injured and hospitalised.
Today several university campuses carried out march and demonstrations condemning the police action.
Jamia VC has called for FIR against Delhi police for entering the campus without permission and using teargas inside the library.
The first students to take to the streets were from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) who started a protest as soon as news of Jamia incident got out. The students’ protest clashed with the police who fired teargas shells and lathicharged protesters, who they accused of pelting stones. Internet was suspended in Aligarh after the incident from 10 pm on Sunday to 10 pm on Monday. At least 60 AMU students have been injured.
The Jamia and AMU crackdown led to midnight outrage as students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Delhi University were joined by others in holding a massive protest at the Delhi Police Headquarters in ITO.
Today students took out to streets or had a sit-in protest, demonstrations from Uttar Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry, Bangalore, West Bengal, and Maharashtra and other places.
This is from Lucknow Integral University Girls hostel.
Students protesting against CAB and Delhi police brutality on #JamiaMilia students.#CAAProtests #JamiaProtest pic.twitter.com/DlkdsmbwcB
— Md Asif Khan آصِف (@imMAK02) December 16, 2019
Protest at Nadwa College Lucknow, they are protesting against CAB and in solidarity with #JamiaMillia and #AligarhMuslimUniversity .
This is the beginning of the revolution now! #JamiaProtest pic.twitter.com/5W7P0uAVcb
— Md Asif Khan آصِف (@imMAK02) December 16, 2019
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit the streets of Kolkata on Monday along with thousands of party members and vowed not to allow the proposed country-wide and the amended Citizenship Act in West Bengal.
Students of Jadavpur University also took out protests against CAA as well as in solidarity with students at JMI, Aligarh Muslim university and Delhi university.
Later the same night, there were angry demonstrations at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi and the Jadavpur University in Kolkata with demands that the government take action against police assault.
Students from Jadavpur University in solidarity with JMI, AMU, DU.
Reject NPR-NRC-CAA#JamiaProtest #CABProtests pic.twitter.com/TnER6cfGpV— Madhurima (@Madhurima_ML) December 16, 2019
Student organisations also took out protests in Pondicherry against Delhi police brutality inside the campuses.
100's of @PondiUniVC students protest march inside the campus against #DelhiPolice brutality on #JamiaProtest students. pic.twitter.com/Nh3Mc2Vusd
— Mugilan Chandrakumar (@Mugilan__C) December 16, 2019
Protests at maulana Azad national urdu UniversityHyderabad against CAA and demanding strict action against the Delhi police.
Just Now!
Massive protests has gone under huge gathering from last evening and still going on at #MANUU #Hyderabad.Meanwhile all exams have been postponed today.
Students demanding strict action against #DelhiPolice.#SOSJAMIA #SOSJamiaAMU #CABProtest #NRCProtest pic.twitter.com/BK0InPakJK— Azhar Shaheen (@AzharShaheen10) December 16, 2019
Students led by the leftist students’ organisation DYFI also hit the streets in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram and kannur, kerala in solidarity with Jamia Protests.
Protest against the brutal attack of Delhi police at Kannur Kerala.#JamiaProtest #JamiaMillia pic.twitter.com/tqJBZhfb2c
— Edhan (@eldhose777) December 15, 2019
Former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned from his job to protest against abolition of article 370 in kashmir also lent his support for Jamia students and raised voice against the citizenship amendment Act.
Kannan Gopinathan, former IAS officer who resigned to protest against BJP's govt attack on democratic rights of Kashmiri people, is here at Jamia to strengthen the people's voice against CAA-NRC and against police brutality on students.@UmarKhalidJNU #JamiaMilia #JamiaProtest pic.twitter.com/2GNuBSXJYc
— Gabbar ???? (@Gabbar0099) December 16, 2019
IIT Bombay and Tata Institute of Social Sciences lent solidarity to the protests in Mumbai by taking out rallies and shouting “Shame on Delhi Police”.
#LIVE : #TISS students demonstrate solidarity with #JamiaMilia, AMU students. @ Ambedkar Garden, Chembur. #JamiaProtest @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/5vnXnnGdus
— Abha Goradia (@AbhaGoradia) December 16, 2019
The premiere institutions — IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay — are not the regular ones to join protests and usually stay away from agitations. But this time they came out in support of the students of Jamia and AMU.
Students of IIT Bombay march in solidarity with the students of Jamia in Delhi.
The spark of a revolution has been lit.. ????????#AligarhMuslimUniversity#IndiaToEndia #JamiaProtest #IITBombay #CABPolitics #CABProtests pic.twitter.com/fZoLcA4fXO
— Priyanshu Jaiswal (@Priyanshu1790) December 16, 2019
Students at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, also joined the protest. A student leading the protests said, ” To work in this climate for a government that not only threatens us with de-citizenship but also dehumanises us when we try to raise our voice, is to submit ourselves to enslavement.”
Students from jamia Millia University carried out silent protest today in Delhi.
Silent protest at #Jamia
The optics of this are unsettling but powerful (the act of covering your mouth signalling silence)
Unconditional solidarity #NoToCAB #NoToNRC pic.twitter.com/acYOcgRy6t
— khawla (@zainabkhawla) December 16, 2019