Clashes break out at Jamia protest, campus shut, classes go online
Jamia Millia Islamia University has moved classes online and closed its campus following escalating protests and clashes between students and security personnel. The students are demanding the restoration of an elected student union, which has been absent since 2006.
Why it matters
The situation highlights ongoing tensions regarding student governance and campus safety in major Indian central universities.
NEW DELHI: Jamia Millia Islamia shut campus and moved classes online from Saturday as student agitation for the restoration of the students' union escalated into fresh clashes with security personnel who allegedly used force to clear hunger-strike camp.Since Oct 12, students have been on a sit-in and hunger strike, which has grown into Jamia's biggest student protest since the anti-CAA agitation. Jamia has not had an elected union since 2006, when it was dissolved following violence. It is one of Delhi's few central universities without an elected union.Videos showed pushing and shoving at Ghalib Lawn between students and security personnel. Protesters were seen making a human chain to prevent those on hunger strike from being taken away after negotiations with university officials failed.
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