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This is an archive article published on April 7, 2016
NIT Srinagar protests: J&K students will be targeted outside state, warns BJP
Sunil Sethi further called upon the state govt to take such measures in consultation with the aggrieved students to revive their confidence and also to ensure peace in the campus.
Security personnel at NIT Srinagar, Wednesday. (Express Photo: Shuaib Masoodi)
With the NIT Srinagar row between students from the Valley and outside becoming the first test for the Mehbooba Mufti government, the BJP, which is a partner in the ruling coalition, warned of “similar reactions against students from the state studying outside” J&K and “putting to risk and jeopardy their lives and well being’’.
Slamming “misaction” on the NIT campus, J&K BJP chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi Wednesday said “anti-national elements want to destroy the peaceful atmosphere of the state by indulging in such type of violence which tantamount to instigating similar reactions against students from the state studying outside the state and putting to risk and jeopardy their lives and well being’’.
Taking “very strong and serious note of the violence” on the campus, Sethi said the state government must take “effective’’ and “strong action’’ against “all persons involved including police officers” to “instil confidence among students who have come to study at NIT from outside the state”.
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He said action should be taken against “all such elements who are indulging in anti-national slogans and hoisting Pakistani flags, supporting and propagating terrorism and separatism’’.
Earlier in the day, protests were staged in different parts of Jammu city over police action against non-Valley students on the NIT Srinagar campus.
Police arrested Youth Congress workers who tried to storm the official residence of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh while students of Jammu University boycotted classes and ABVP activists staged a demonstration.
Parents of students studying in NIT Srinagar also protested outside the Jammu Press Club, demanding deployment of Central police forces on the campus to ensure security of their wards.
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