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| Cong attacks Govt, BJP says everything is fine NIT issue rocks Lok Sabha | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 26: The cornered BJP Government on Tuesday said in the Lok Sabha that deployment of CRPF personnel at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, would not result in alienation of Kashmiri youth.
"Deployment of central forces was not a suo motto decision of the central government. It was done only after the (non-local) students and the NIT administration made a demand (in this regard). Even Jammu and Kashmir police are outside the campus. So I don't think there will be any alienation," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
Rijiju said even the Centre was keen that state police should be able to control things. "It is not only in J&K, but everywhere that the central forces are deployed only to assist the state police". Rijiju said the government has taken adequate steps and even the state government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident. He didn't inform the Lok Sabha that the magisterial inquiry has indicted the non-local students and given a clean chit to all the anti-nationals.
The MoS was responding to supplementary queries on the issue from members, including Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Jyotiraditya Scindia (Congress) and Harish Meena of the BJP. Scindia wondered how could the BJP leaders, who make "tall claims on nationalism", tolerate a situation wherein students raising "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" slogans were lathi-charged by the police.
Harish Meena said the violence in NIT Srinagar was "not primarily" due to a cricket match as similar trouble was also seen in a Dausa college (Rajasthan), where there were only 20 Kashmiri students among 1,300 students. "It is more than cricket,' he said and asserted that a "Bhaijaan from Dubai" controls lot of things happening with cricket in the region.
In an intervention, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said things have been brought under control on the campus after quick response both by the state government and the Centre. "Even non-local students who wanted to go back to their homes were provided with assistance and facilities. But the good development is that these students are coming back," Rajnath Singh said, adding that even those who could not appear for exams earlier due to violence will now be able to appear for the tests from May 26 to May 29.
It is important to note that Owaisi took strong exception to the remarks from Congress member and former union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia that people have lost faith in Jammu and Kashmir Police. "I am shocked at the remarks from the Congress member," he said. "Don't demean Jammu and Kashmir Police,' he also said.
Owaisi wanted the Home Minister to clarify -- now that the BJP was sharing power with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state -- whether it can make any announcement on withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) at least from Srinagar and its vicinity and remove military bunkers in the summer capital of the state.
He said the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) cannot bring "emotional and physical security" to the campus and rather there would be alienation of the local youth from the mainstream.
Significantly, the J&K government on Monday withdrew paramilitary CRPF from the NIT campus after the alleged complaints that they were instigating protests. The CRPF men were deployed in the campus after the clashes between local and non-local students over India's loss to West Indies in WorldT20 semi final match on March 31.
"CRPF was deployed in the campus but it was seen that the role of the paramilitary force has not been satisfactory. There were complaints that some of the CRPF officials were shooting the videos of the protests by non local students in the campus. After receiving the complaints, CRPF men were withdrawn from the campus," said a senior official was quoted as saying.
The Union Home Minister and MOS, Home, said everything which was untenable and both kept the Lok Sabha in the dark about the inquiry committee report and removal of the CRPF personnel from the institute.
One thing is clear: It is impossible for the non-local students to pursue their academic career in the NIT Srinagar, which is under the complete control of undesirables. |
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