Twenty-eight students were injured after police resorted to lathi-charge. Students from Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Allahabad University joined the protests on Friday.
Tension prevailed at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) as thousands of students continued their protests at the AMU's main gate – Baab-e-Sayyad – demanding judicial inquiry against members of right-wing groups who entered the campus and clashed with them on Wednesday. Twenty-eight students were injured after police resorted to lathi-charge. Students from Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Allahabad University joined the protests on Friday.
The crowd started swelling at around 1.15 pm and as many as 3,000 students offered Friday prayers at the protest site. Hundreds of teaching and non-teaching staff also joined them. "We won't leave the protest site until our demands are met. Academic activities will remain suspended for the next three days. We have also met the Vice-Chancellor and asked him to take up our demands.
The students' demands include suspension of Civil Lines police station SHO, and a magisterial inquiry against the MP Satish Gautam for trying to communalise the campus environment," said AMU Students' Union Vice-President Sajad Subhan.
Amid heavy security deployment, at around 3 pm, several hundred of teachers took out a protest march from AMU Staff Club to District police headquarter in solidarity of students. They submitted a memorandum in the name of President of India mentioning students' demand to the ADM (city) SB Singh.
The administration, meanwhile, tried to bring the tempers down and the Vice Chancellor (VC) Tariq Mansoor, who was out of the public site as of now, visited injured students at the hospital and those agitating at Baab-e-Sayyed. Members of several right-wing groups including Yogi Adityanath's Hindu Yuva Vahini had barged in the campus to remove the portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on Wednesday.
Sources said that the AMU administration has contacted the Union Human Resource Development Minsitry and demanded a judicial inquiry in the matter. However, when asked about the present stance of the University on Jinnah's portrait, AMU PRO Omar Peerzada said, "It's a part of AMU's history. And, whether good or bad, History cannot be erased." As per AMU's tradition, the University's student union grants honorary memberships to prominent people in the field of politics, social or educational work. And, pictures of all these members, including Jinnah are present on the walls of its office.
Meanwhile, on request of Aligarh police facebook has removed a controversial post put up by "Hinduwadi Chhatra Sangh", a local right-wing body, claiming that they entered the AMU campus and removed Jinnah's portrait. "We have formed a team to check such inflammatory posts on social networking sites," Aligarh SSP Ajay Sahani said.
"We have also taken two Hindu Chhatra Sangh leaders into preventive custody," he said.
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