Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has condemned the current lathi cost on peaceable scholar protesters, accusing BJP governments of utilizing pressure to suppress dissent on Monday.
In a put up on the social media platform X, Kejriwal highlighted the incident as an assault on democracy and criticised the federal government’s response to scholar voices. He said, “BJP governments wish to suppress each voice of protest with the assistance of sticks. Lathicharge on peacefully protesting college students is a direct assault in opposition to democracy.”
“College students are the way forward for the nation; take heed to their voice as an alternative of suppressing it. Lathi’s cost on the protesters reveals the weak spot and insensitivity of these in energy. The nation won’t ever forgive such injustice to the youth. We stand with all these college students,” the put up added.
Earlier at the moment, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed her displeasure over the “inhumane” therapy of scholar protestors in Bihar who’ve been demanding the cancellation of the Built-in Mixed (Preliminary) Aggressive Examination (CCE) 2024 carried out by the Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC).
She stated that the double-engine authorities of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) has develop into an emblem of double “atrocities” on youth. Gandhi lashed out on the Bihar authorities over lathi costs in opposition to college students by the police and using water cannons in opposition to them in the course of the chilly climate. She stated that as an alternative of curbing corruption, it was the scholars whose voices had been being suppressed.
“College students had been oppressed for the second time in three days in Bihar. It’s the authorities’s job to cease corruption, rigging and paper leaks in examinations. However as an alternative of stopping corruption, college students are being prevented from elevating their voices,” the put up added.
“Water cannons and lathi-charges on youth on this harsh chilly are inhumane. BJP’s double engine has develop into an emblem of double atrocities on the youth,” Gandhi, who’s Congress MP from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, posted on X.
