Farmers Movement Archive

GNDU students rally for farmers, activists

caption-GNDU students came out in support of farmers and activists Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) students came out in support of farmers agitating for the abrogation of three farm laws. They also held a protest against the arrest of farmers and activists. Carrying placards with slogans like ‘Political prisoners aren’t criminals’, ‘In Modi’s India, a tweet favoring protesting farmers is a crime’, the students of various departments of the university took out a march and demanded release of activists, including Disha Ravi and Nodeep Kaur, and 122 farmers detained in Tihar jail. Addressing a gathering of students, Sikh Youth of Punjab president Paramjit Singh Mand, a former student of GNDU, said, “For the past few months, a large number of peasants are sleeping on different borders of Delhi in chilling cold and have taken up the battle against the policies that would put them in the bondage of contractors and big corporates. They are demanding the rollback of agriculture laws, scrapping of Electricity Amendment Bill 2020, and legislating the demand of MSP. Hence, it is necessary that the student community should stand shoulder to shoulder with the farmers.” Jatinder Singh, a PhD scholar of the university, said the Union government had an obligation to protect and uphold protesters’ human rights and not to demonise them.

The Times of India

2021-02-18

Amritsar