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Pro, anti-reservation clash in JNU
Published on Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:14, Updated on Sat, May 20, 2006 at 15:15 in India section
Tags: Sc/st Reservation, JNU , New Delhi
New Delhi: Reservation politics is finally taking its toll on students as was obvious at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in the Capital on Friday night.
The sharp divide between the pro and anti-reservation students came to the fore when pro and anti reservation students clashed on the campus.
One girl was severely injured in the clash.
On Friday evening, anti-reservation protestors at JNU were taking out a peaceful candlelight march. As per plan, their counterparts from IIT Delhi joined in the march.
However, the pro-reservation JNU students, who mostly belong to or sympathise with the Left, didn't apporove.
They tried to stop the IIT students from entering the campus and that is what started it all - a small skirmish that turned into complete chaos and mayhem.
"There was an anti-reservation protest in the campus today but the students who were taking part in the protest were not JNU students, though they put up a banner saying that they were. That is the reason why the fight started," said a student, Tanya who belongs to the pro-reservation faction.
For a brief while, it was a free for all brawl and nobody knew who had triggered it off. Even journalists were told to get lost.
Furious students took their anger out on scribes saying that the media had no idea how to cover such delicate issues.
Though things did calm down in a short while, students were seething with anger, many of who blame the Left brigade for starting it all.
A student of IIT Delhi said that the pro-reservation march should be as peaceful as the anti-reservation rallies else violent incidents would just increase.
Meanwhile, HRD Minister Arjun Singh, in an exclusive interview to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate, said that the Prime Minister was in the know and had approved of the controversial OBC quota bill.
He strongly denied allegations that the PM was kept out of the loop.
"The whole act was made, the Constitution was amended, and the Prime Minister was fully aware of what this is going to mean. Actually he had a meeting in which OBC leaders were called so they could be convinced that this bill would give them the desired advantage and that they should support this legislation. And at that meeting he himself talked to them. Now how do you say that he was unaware?" he questioned.
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