NPP protests Govt’s apathy over NIT row, torches Dy CM’s effigy Smriti Irani should personally visit NIT Srinagar to resolve tension: Harsh

 STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Expressing solidarity with the students sitting on the protest at NIT Srinagar for the last four days, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) staged a massive protest against the State Government’s apathy in resolving the tension emanated from the clash during the semi finals of T20 World Cup inside the institute campus.
Scores of Panthers activists along with the parents of the student victims led by Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP assembled at Exhibition Ground here and torched the effigy of Dy CM Nirmal Singh for his obnoxious remarks over the cane charge and failure to resolve the issue.
Lampooning the BJP’s slogan of ‘zero tolerance’ against the anti-nationals turning into mere rhetoric, Harsh vociferously condemned the unlawful baton charge on the nationalist students who bravely upheld the honour of the ‘Tricolour’ while confronting certain anti-national elements inside the NIT Srinagar campus who celebrated India’s defeat by the Caribbean.
While taking a jibe on Dy CM Nirmal Singh, Harsh flayed the incumbent for his obnoxious remarks that the students were subjected to “mild Lathi-charge” when actually the police exceeded its limits and used force to assault hundreds of students during which many were hit on the head and several were injured critically. He pointed out that over and above the nationalist students were slapped FIR on 5th April in which the State Police had invoked Sec 353 for assaulting public servant and Sec 188 for disobedience of order promulgated by public servant, of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) in addition to the previous FIR registered against them on 1st April. He vociferously demanded the revocation of the FIRs against the nationalist students and sought the invocation of Sec 124-A for sedition and Sec 121 against the offenders for waging a war against the State without any further delay. He added that if Nirmal Singh was reluctant to visit the campus then one could gauge the intensity of the tension which the students were going through.
Revealing that the students were barred from speaking to media who were fearing psychosis, Singh exhorted Union Minister MHRD Samriti Irani to personally visit the NIT Srinagar and interact with the students to resolve the tension inside the campus.