STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Jammu Province People Forum (JPPF) condemned the recent statement of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, wherein she has outrightly dismissed the NIT incident as non-issue.
Addressing the media persons here on Monday, President JPPF, Thakur Pavitar Singh blamed the State Government for suppressing national forces as a routine matter otherwise there was no cause of repetition of JNU incident in NIT campus Srinagar, once theses antinational elements were crushed with heavy hands and nipped the evil in the bud.
“It is an open chapter that the encouragement to these anti-national forces give rise to such incidents aimed at engineering unrest, besides law and order problem, which ultimately causes considerable damage to the secular character, brotherhood and amity in the democratic setup of the State” he mentioned.
The NIT incident emanating from the day India lost to West Indies in the semi final of world cup in cricket, he said, was not a new reason to engineer such like incident it was the conspired, pre-planned celebration of India’s defeat by anti-national elements causing unrest in the NIT campus and a conflict between the non-local students with that of locals mixing with anti-national elements.
The role of faculty members, police entry in the NIT campus, snatching Tricolour from the non-local students, beating them brutally causing fractures and head injuries, confinement of non-local students to the campus despite repeated request of evacuation, to provide security and protection to them in the unsafe campus, continuous threatening, threatening female students of rapes, banning the entry of media in the campus, charging the nonlocal students with false, frivolous and fabricated stone-pelting charge, and slapping of FIRs against them by the State police, just to cover up their brutalities on innocent students are enough reasons to believe that nonlocal students including girls studying in the NIT were not safe, he alleged.
Moreover, he said, their career is at stake in view of FIRs slapped against them.
He urged the State Government to resolve the issue by acceding to their demands, without whiling away anymore.
The demands included immediate evacuation of nonlocal students including girls from the unsafe campus and shifting them to other NIT, shifting of the NIT from Srinagar to some safer place, suspension of police personnel including DSP Sajjad for committing brutalities on the nonlocal students, return of National Flag snatched by DSP Sajjad by use of force from peacefully demonstrating students, immediate withdrawal of false concocted FIRs registered by police against non-local students aimed at spoiling their career and dismissal of such of the faculty members who are hand in glove with the anti-national elements engineering antinational incidents in the campus.
JPPF also urged the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to read the writing on the wall and resolve the issue within a period of ten days failing which an agitation would be launched to seek justice for the innocent students of the NIT.
Simultaneously, JPPF also demanded constitution of commission of Inquiry directly under the J and K High Court.
Making a fervent appeal to the people of Jammu to unite for the cause of Jammu youth, JPPF exhorted people to take this incident as a wakeup call to act against injustice, which Jammu has been facing for the last seven decades.
Other JPPF leaders who were present included Inderjeet Khajuria, Kr Naryan Singh, Gajan Singh Khajuria, Avinash Bhatia, M.L Sharma, Sunita Sharma, Kamla Sharma, Balwan Singh, Prithvi Raj Singh, Gajan Singh Khalsa, R.L Tandon, Pritam Sharma, K.K Paroch, Rajinder Singh and Rajinder Gupta.
