JNUSU Gives National Call to Intensify the #JusticeForNajeeb Movement
On the 10th of November, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) issued the following appeal to all progressive and democratic group across the country with an aim to further intensity the movement demanding Juctise for Najeeb – the JNU Student who went missing after a brawl with hooligans belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
JNUSU APPEAL
#JusticeForNajeeb
An Appeal for Solidarity and United Protest Actions
Friends,
On 14th October night, Najeeb Ahmed, a student of M.Sc. Biotechnology, JNU was brutally assaulted and violently threatened by a group of ABVP students. From 15th October morning, Najeeb went missing from the campus. The disappearance of a student from a central university in the national capital after assault and intimidation of right wing lumpen is no doubt an ominous reflection of the dark times we are living in. For past four weeks, students, teachers, staff members of JNU, and citizens of Delhi have been coming out on the streets demanding institutional accountability to bring back Najeeb.
What is absolutely shocking and shameful, the partisan role of the University administration in the whole affair. JNU administration has not taken action on its own nor filed any complaint with the police regarding the assault on Najeeb. None of the University press releases mention the vicious attack and intimidation on him.
Further, the JNU administration is stooping to the lowest levels by repeatedly churning out show-cause notices and threat letters to student activists involved in the movement for Najeeb.
On the other hand, the Delhi police did not allow Najeeb’s mother to mention the incident of assault on Najeeb in her FIR (which now stands as a simple FIR of kidnapping, against unknown persons).
The JNUSU and other eyewitnesses also filed a police complaint naming the persons who assaulted Najeeb and threatened to kill him. But it is utterly appalling that the assaulters named in the complaint have still not seriously interrogated nor have their call records been investigated so far. On the contrary, Delhi Police marshalled all its forces to manhandle Najeeb’s mother and family members and unleash repression on the student protesters demanding accountability from the Delhi Police.
Further, following massive protests during last week, the Delhi Police is now churning out misleading media feeds to divert attention from its own omissions and commissions.
A student from a minority community goes missing from the university, his assaulters roam scot free and the university administration – police – ruling government remain mute spectators. The pattern is simple, clear and unmistakable. The government of the day has waged a war on campuses and on all marginalized sections and dissenting voices across the country. Yesterday it was Rohith Vemula pushed to suicide, then it was JNU students charged with sedition and jailed, today it is Najeeb, tomorrow it may be any of us. From HCU, BHU, DU to JNU- everywhere it is the same design unfolding: the RSS-ABVP goons under full patronage of university administrations and the BJP government get away with each and every vicious attack across campuses, and Dalits, minorities and dissenting voices are intimidated, harassed and even institutionally murdered.
This is the time to fight back! We must unitedly resist Modi government’s war on the dignity and security of the oppressed people, on student-youth, on universities.
JNUSU and different national Students’ Organisations have come together to organise Country-wide Protests for Justice for Najeeb. We appeal to all democratic organisations and elected Student Unions to join hands in this united call for justice for Najeeb.
We appeal to you to endorse and observe the solidarity protest actions in different campuses on the following dates and participate in the “Chalo JNU” march in JNU on 15th November (Marking One Month of Najeeb’s Disappearance).
Against JNU VC’s Total Abdication of Institutional Responsibility Towards Najeeb! Against Continuing Political Protection to the Assaulters of Najeeb! Against Delhi Police’s Gross Non-Seriousness and Misleading Media Feeds in the Search for Najeeb!
11 Nov : National Students’ Leaders Meet and Press Conference at JNU
12 Nov: Protest and Effigy Burning of JNU VC and Home Minister in Campuses Across the Country
13-14 Nov: Campaign in Different Campuses
15 Nov: Join National call of ‘Chalo JNU’
Juloos and Protest Meeting at JNU
Please upload photos and videos of your protest actions and also mail to us atmohit.jnusu@gmail,satrupa.
jnu@gmail.com In solidarity,
Mohit, President, JNUSU
Amal, VP, JNUSU
Satarupa, Gen. Secy, JNUSU
Tabrez, Jt.Secy, JNUSU
