New Delhi: Protests demanding the restoration of the Jamia Millia Islamia Students’ Union (JMISU), suspended since 2006, continued on Sunday as students re-erected a camp near Gate No. 7, where they had been agitating since October 12, before being evicted on Saturday.
The protest began after three students launched a hunger strike at Gulistan-i-Ghalib Garden near Gate No. The JMI administration has maintained that Gate No. The university also closed two libraries—Dr. Several university gates remained closed, with barricades and Delhi police personnel deployed outside the campus.
- 18 is the designated protest site. 18 as the protest site, but the location is so far from the administrative building and the vice-chancellor’s office that the protest is practically out of sight.
Another student, who asked not to be named, said the university has designated an area near Gate No. “As long as the protest remains peaceful and does not disrupt academic activities, why should students be forced to demonstrate in a place where their voices are unlikely to be heard?,” said the 22-year-old master’s student at JMI. Congress-backed National Students Union of India (NSUI) national president Vinod Jhakar joined the protest on Sunday. The university suspended the three students on Friday evening. Zakir Husain Library and the Old Library—on Sunday, citing security concerns.
