Mumbai, The All India Students’ Association has lent support to the Cockroach Janta Party’s proposed September 5 protest march in Delhi, demanding withdrawal of FIRs against students and an inquiry into alleged pellet and bullet firing during earlier demonstrations.
“The government must fully withdraw all cases. “From AISA, we are seeing that this is a matter which still remains unresolved. “Ideally, the government of a democracy should listen to people who are coming to have a dialogue with it.
There should be an inquiry into the firing of pellets and bullets, and the government must be fully prepared to take accountability for the same,” the Left-wing student leader said. The government itself had committed to withdrawing the cases, but still this is a major issue where students who protested against the government have cases against them,” she said. “The entire point of why students and youth had come out on the streets and why we came out on the streets was that this government has made it impossible for the common people to have a dialogue with them,” she said. On the participation of families affected by the NEET controversy, the AISA chief said the government should have recognised their concerns when the agitation started. “This government should have realised at the beginning of our agitation that students affected by NEET, and families who have lost their loved ones because of the government’s failure, had come out to force their voices to be heard,” she said. Asked about the government’s likely response to the renewed mobilisation, Bora said a democratic government should engage with people seeking dialogue. What will be this government’s response is not something I can say,” she said.
The issues that have prompted the youth mobilisation remain unresolved, with cases still pending against students despite the government’s earlier commitment to withdraw them, AISA president Neha Bora told PTI on Wednesday.
