The Students Federation of India (SFI) organised a protest over the reopening of Delhi University today. According to a press release by the student body, over 400 students gathered at the call of SFI to ‘gherao’ the VC Office today from 11:00 am. The students demanded the reopening of Delhi University after the revised DDMA guidelines were issued.
‘Out of Service Placard hung over gates of VC Office Compound
Additionally, the protesting students hung an ‘Out of Service’ placard over the gate of the VC office compound while other student and teacher organizations extended their support to the protest, SFI informed further.
Let VC feel how we feel
The students’ body has also alleged that female SFI activists were harassed by the police.
Additionally, students locked the gate of Delhi University, VC from inside and claimed to “let VC feel how we feel.”
The frustration of students evident
SFI Hindu College Secretary Ankit Birpali said, “The frustration of students is quite evident. You can see it in their faces, hear it in their voices. VC must address the situation in the next two days or else we would have to break the locks of our classrooms ourselves.”
Online classes boycotted
The student’s body informed further that over 53 departments across the university observed a complete boycott of online classes in the protesting students’ support. Arushi Sharma, a student of Miranda House, “Many of us are not in Delhi right now so we couldn’t join the protest called by SFI. But we decided that we must take action to send a message that students, in general, support the demand of re-opening the campus. Hence, we boycotted online classes today.”
‘Sadak pe kaksha’
Further, the students’ body announced the commencement of ‘Sadak pe Kaksha’, or ‘classroom on the street’ from February 9, till the Delhi University is reopened.
‘Classrooms on the street is a message to the administration that both teachers and students want to begin offline classes,” said Abhishek the co-convenor of SFI DU.
“If they have any respect left for us, they should open the classrooms immediately,” he added.
Removal of protestors from the campus
According to reports, on the request of DU Authorities, some SFI /AISA Protestors were removed from outside the VC Office by Delhi Police at around 7:30 pm and were immediately released when the premises were found vacated.
The Delhi University administration had sought police assistance in getting the premises vacated by the protestors in writing.
It was also reported that an adequate number of women police personnel were present to handle the female protestors.
Many protestors had vacated the premises on their own except a few who were removed from the premises, while no detentions were made as per further reports.
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