Editor Mr.Mayank Rawat ( Chief Editor Mr. Rohit Mishra )
New Delhi: A day after All India Students’ Association (AISA) held a protest in solidarity with a suspended student activist, Ambedkar University on Wednesday issued a notification prohibiting demonstrations near the administration area.
The university has stated that the administration block is a “no protest zone”. According to the notification, protests or demonstrations within the premises of the administrative area (from gate number 1 to Dara Shikoh Library), at the Kashmere Gate campus, shall not be permitted. “In order to maintain a peaceful and orderly environment, the administrative area is strictly designated as a no protest zone,” the university stated.
Stringent disciplinary action will be taken against the violators, it added.
Students are permitted to hold peaceful gatherings on campus at the designated areas—near Punjab and Sind Bank with at least one day of prior intimation to the proctor’s office, the notification stated.
Earlier, several students led by AISA staged a demonstration at the vice-chancellor Anu Singh Lather’s office and demanded the revocation of suspension of an activist, who was suspended for criticising the VC’s Republic Day speech.
The students’ association called the action “an attack on democratic rights“. In a statement, AISA said, “It is extremely concerning that the entire campus had been barricaded and rendered entirely inaccessible by the administration. The entrances had been sealed off, student and faculty movement restricted and the AUD administration even went to the extent of taking out a notice banning protests in the area in front of the offices of the VC and other officials.”
Mayank Rawat
