JNU Protests: Why Were Students Compelled To Hit the Streets?
Why were students compelled to take to the streets, protest and fight with cops?
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Video Editor: Sandeep Suman
While the protests at JNU are doing the rounds on social media, there are people opposing the protests and have their set of arguments to offer. People claim that students of JNU are studying on tax payer's money and yet are creating ruckus about a nominal fees hike.
Students at JNU are being accused of crying foul about the hostel fees even when they are capable of buying condoms and alcohol.
Our soldiers at the border are ready to sacrifice their lives but JNU students are involved only in protests, revolts and strikes.
The question that arises is if the University which gave India a Nobel Prize winner, a Finance Minister and Minister of External Affairs, then why does everything about the same University bother some?
The protests turned violent when over 200 students got injured allegedly by the police. According to them, they are being lathi-charged and being shot at with water cannons.
But, the questions is, why were students compelled to go out on the streets, protest and fight with cops?
Why did they feel the need to do so?
Why didn't the government intervene on time?
When the government can claim to have solved Doklam issue with China and take credit for outwitting Pakistan on international platforms, couldn't it talk to JNU students who are part of our nation?
JNU Annual Report 2017-18 clearly states that 40 percent of those enrolled at JNU come from families with a monthly income of Rs 12,000 or less. Which means 40 percent of students are from families who live on less than Rs 400/day.
These students belong to families of daily-wage labourers , tea sellers, rickshaw pullers, farmers or ordinary job holders.
What's the problem if students ask questions? Do we want nobody to ask questions in our country? Asking questions is vital. It is not necessary that if a said thing is accepted by everybody, it has to correct.
Galileo had said the Earth revolves around the sun and even though he was punished but, he was indeed right!
Sir, in your hatred for JNU you seem to have forgotten that students from marginalised backgrounds can't make 'donations' in private colleges.
Hence, they depend on whatever they get in government institutions. In a temple of education, if you apply the logic of 'Free entry but fee needed to protect your footwear', you're turning the temple into a business.
This might lead you to ask: 'Janab, Aise Kaise?'
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