Dissent Is The Essence Of Democracy: AMU Students March In Solidarity With JNU

By AMU Students & AISA (AMU Unit)

17 February, 2016
Countercurrents.org

A protest march from Maulana Azad Library to Baab-e-Syed, AMU in solidarity with JNU students and against RSS and BJP patronize fabrication of false sedition charges upon them.

We, the students of Aligarh Muslim University believe that a university is a place where various issues are to be discussed and debated in a free manner and everyone has a right to dissent in democratic system. But, under present NDA regime at centre, every other tone that is not affiliates or matched with RSS-BJP is being framed as anti national. This should be stop as this is not an essence of a healthy democracy and this creates an atmosphere of ‘undeclared emergency’ in the country.

We, the students of Aligarh Muslim University believe in the sovereignty and integrity of Union of India. But, at the very same time we believe that no law of the land would become a tool for political vendetta as we seen in the arrest case of JNU Student Union president “Kanhaiya Kumar” and his innocent colleagues. We strongly condemns the sedition charges against the students of JNU for their alleged anti-national sloganeering and we believe that sedition is undemocratic and the ‘Sedition law’ itself is a British legacy.

We condemns the torture and beat up by RSS minded lawyers and their goons to the journalists, teachers, activists and students yesterday at Supreme Court premises and also condemns the anti people of act of Delhi police for not taking any action on those miscreants.

At the same time we also condemn the anti-India sloganeering at JNU or at any site in India and demand fair probe by independent committee to find out and to punish the culprits behind this anti-national act.

In today’s protest march we submit a memo to President of India to order a fair probe into a matter and to ensure release of innocent students of JNU.

AMU Students & AISA (AMU Unit)