Agitated over the tragic death of a fellow student J Muthu Krishnan, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Thursday, held a protest on the university’s campus.
Demanding to develop a strong and effective mechanism to prevent discrimination against marginalised students, one of the protesters who did not want to be named told The Pioneer, “We are protesting for two things. There should be one independent committee which will probe the untimely death of Muthu Krishnan and second, the university should own up the prevailing condition and take moral responsibility for that.”
Pinjra Tod, the independent collective of students also participated in the protest including students from universities across Delhi.
A couple of teachers and professors were also seen demanding justice and setting up of a high level enquiry committee for the suicide of Muthu Krishnan.
The protesters were also seeking respectable monetary and employment compensation for the student’s family. “Though life in no way can be compensated but the university should help in some way or the other. Our next demand is to end caste discrimination in viva-voce” he added.
In demand to scrap 5th May University Grants Commission (UGC) gazette notifications, the protesting students added “Implementation of Thorat and Nafey Committee recommendation is a must. The UGC gazette notification must be made in a way so as not to do well only for the creamy layer students section but to benefit all, regardless of caste.”