History of Jamia College: "anti-national" university born of deep Indian nationa

Posted by Deepa Saini on January 21st, 2020

The protest was broken by the Delhi Police through night-long police action, in which dozens of students were beaten with batons amid the firing of tear gas shells.

I will be staying at my friend's place for the remaining days and will head home on the day my tickets are reserved," he said. His friend, Mudassar, who is from Bihar, will also be staying at a friend's place till the time his tickets are confirmed. It was set up in 1920 in Aligarh, around 150 kilometres southeast of New Delhi, later moving to Delhi’s Karol Bagh area, and eventually to its current campus at Okhla in New Delhi.

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It was established as part of the Non-Cooperation movement of 1920 led by Mahatma Gandhi. Under this movement, Indians refuse to follow British systems in place in the India of that time: courts, civil services, and even infrastructure.

But not all the students are protesting against the Act. There are some students who have joined the protests against the brutality of the Delhi Police. Nandini, a French student in Jamia said, “The protests were peaceful until the police started its lathi charge. I am disappointed by the brutality of the police.

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On Sunday, students marched from Shaheen Bagh, Batla House and Zakir Nagar, but the police stopped them at New Friends’ Colony and started charging them with batons. Police entered the library and even attacked the students studying there. As a democratic nation, we have the right to protest and, therefore, what Delhi Police did was wrong.”

Shakeb Zuber, a former student of Jamia said, “We demand equal rights from the government. We were conducting peaceful protests, but the Delhi Police started firing tear gas on us. There were many students who were taken to jail from the hospitals by the police. We demand that the NRC and CAA are scrapped as they are unconstitutional.