Clash in Jamia (left) Police deployed at the gate (right)
Jamia Millia Islamia Islamia University says the clash that took place on Tuesday night was planned in advance. For this reason, the foreigners came together and started raising slogans, which made the situation there worse. The university administration says that this appears to be a completely sponsored incident and the involvement of outside elements who are trying to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the university.
Slogans were raised during Diwali celebrations in Jamia on Tuesday. Due to this, a confrontation occurred between two groups of students. After this, students were not allowed to celebrate Diwali the next day.
What did the university administration say?
On the violence that took place on Tuesday night, the administration of Jamia Millia Islamia University says that the students were given conditional permission to celebrate Diwali. Everything went peacefully until 7:30 p.m., when some unknown people began shouting slogans. This shows that external elements of the crowd deliberately created a disturbance as part of a well-thought-out strategy, which was later also joined by other students. In this matter, the university administration has lodged a formal complaint against unknown persons at the Jamia Nagar police station. Furthermore, the university is trying to identify the accused through CCTV footage and internal sources and take appropriate action against them. It is noteworthy that Jamia Millia Islamia is an important center of Ganga-Jamuni culture of the country and every year people of all religions joyfully celebrate the festival here.
No permission granted to celebrate Diwali on Wednesday
Around 30 to 40 students belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University (DU) and other institutions gathered in front of Jamia University on Wednesday to celebrate the ‘Deep Mahotsav’ . The police asked them to leave because they had not received permission from the university. An official said the students had not received permission from the university to organize the program again on Wednesday. Police personnel have been deployed outside the campus gate as a precautionary measure after a clash broke out between two groups of students during Diwali celebrations in Jamia on Tuesday.
The RKM program was
The Diwali event was organized by Rashtriya Kala Manch (RKM), which is affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Meanwhile, the Jamia Minority Association criticized the incident and expressed concern over alleged increasing attacks on minority Hindu students in the university. He demanded the university to start investigating the matter and take strict action against the culprits.
