JNU Protest: Speeches Continue on Campus As Police Wait Outside

Watch this space for live updates from JNU.

• The Vice Chancellor is meeting the JNU Teachers’ Association.
• JNU Teachers’ Associations says University must take steps to ensure that charges of criminal conspiracy and sedition against students are dropped.
  
• Delhi Police wait outside campus for Vice Chancellor Jagadeesh Kumar’s permission to enter.
  
• Supreme Court to hear the plea seeking contempt action against Kanhaiya Kumar and SAR Geelani today.
  
• Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad blames the media for making a “hero” of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar.

‘Tonight, Something Might Happen’

BBC journalist Jey Sushil posted on Facebook about some chatter on campus.

His post, in Hindi, translates to this.

There has been no electricity for the last four hours in the JNU campus. However, the market area, dispensary and electrical department have power.The security guard for the night had said the power will not be back before 2:30 am.I was returning home with rice and flour when I heard some boys talking, Something is going to happen tonight. A lot of TV OB vans are lined up outside the campus.

‘There is Proper Evidence Against the One Who is Arrested:’ BS Bassi

Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi has assured that the police has ‘proper evidence’ against the ‘one who is arrested’ and that in future, arrests will be made only after a proper probe.

JNUTA Demands Registrar Be Removed From Office

The JNU Teachers’ Association demands that the registrar be removed from his position. The VC has assured us that police won’t enter the campus. We welcome this decision. 

Vikram Aditya Choudhary, JNUTA Secretary

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— The Quint (@TheQuint) February 22, 2016