바카라�What Are You Fearing?바카라� Detained AISA Students During DU Centenary Question Modi

It was 8:30 am on Friday when Abhigyan stepped out of his home in Kalyan Vihar to run a few errands. Time ticked away, but he did not return. His friend, Anjali as called him, and she got to know that Abhigyan was caught off the guard by Delhi Police outside his colony near the Delhi University campus. 

Prior to that, the All India Students Association's (AISA) Delhi president and an M.A. first-year student Abhigyan was alerted by his friends from Vijay Nagar locality that police were looking for them. But Abhigyan and Anjali thought they were safe unless they leave their flats. 

However, at 9:30 am, about five to six police came to lock Anjali and Abhigyan바카라�s flat. It was the same morning when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to address the centenary ceremony of Delhi University's centenary celebrations as the chief guest. Attendance was made compulsory across several colleges, including Hindu College, affiliated with the central university. 

Notably, no black dress was allowed. Yet, a few kilometres away Anjali and Abhigyan, student activists, were held up inside their house without any warrant.

바카라�We were told that our names have been floated on a list that was called 바카라�Circle of Suspicion바카라�. The police told us that we might create a ruckus and violate the discipline of the institution as we are 바카라�suspicious people바카라�. We might be a threat to the safety of the convoy. Are we criminals? We do not know what that means but it바카라�s surprising how a Prime Minister of a nation feels scared of students,바카라� tells Anjali, AISA DU Secretary and an M.A. first-year student.

 

Ahead of the event, a poster, 바카라�Modi is coming to our campus바카라�, showed up on the walls of the University with a few questions posed for the prime minister. Speaking with Outlook, she says, 바카라�Well, we just wanted to ask a few questions to the prime minister, who is travelling to the United States, and Egypt, and going places talking big about the country바카라�s development and democracy in DNA."

Abhigyan asks what 바카라�safety바카라� of the Prime Minister is being threatened and by whom? 바카라�Is he scared that people will ask him why the unemployment rate has fallen below 8.1 per cent or why chapters on Ambedkar are being deleted?바카라� he asks.
 

Anjali and Abhigyan were the only people, who were put under house arrest while Modi delivered his speech at the campus, where he asserted that 바카라�those with knowledge are happy and strong바카라�.

The duo, too, wanted to attend the event and raise a few pertinent questions because that falls under a person바카라�s fundamental rights. 바카라�Our courses are being diluted, our fees are being drastically hiked every year, fellowships are being cut down and most importantly, secularism is under attack. All we thought was that we would at least have the space to go and ask these questions to the authority,바카라� she says.

Following the detention, which lasted for nearly five hours, a letter was written to the Model Town Police Station regarding the illegal detention of Anjali and Abhigyan. However, a senior Delhi Police officer said no student was detained. Images, that went viral, showed the police personnel seated in the hallway of the student바카라�s house.

 

A heavy police deployment was ordered in nearby localities opening to the campus. Instead of helping the situation, college administrations were accused of putting a strict code of conduct.

Other student activists have also allegedly been stopped from attending the event at the campus. But they were made to watch the live telecast of Modi바카라�s address in their respective colleges. And many, who have been allowed inside, were not allowed to leave the venue for hours on end, allege the AISA activists.

바카라�Perhaps, all of these were done because the administration wants to protect the ruling government from taking accountability. Or to paint a rosy picture that the PM's visit was attended in big numbers. But 바카라�forced바카라�, if we may say,바카라� they state.

Students say that they are witnessing a crackdown on spaces of dissent and brutal attacks on both progressive teachers and students. 바카라�This regime is hellbent on crushing critical thinking, and questioning, through policies like NEP 2020,바카라� says Anjali.

Referring to the proposals to remove studies on Ambedkar, Allama Iqbal, caste and gender from the syllabus, and introduce Veer Savarkar, Abhigyan and Anjali add, 바카라�Syllabus is one of the most calculated tools used by the Sangh brigade to alter and distort history and facts, and to propagate their idea of one nation, one language, one religion. Whenever there is a protest on campus, it is met with brutal violence. The nexus of the BJP, police, administration and ABVP are trying to curb all forms of democratic dialogue in our campuses.바카라�