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| Open choice protests turn violent, 6 students, 4 cops injured in clashes | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu, Jan 21: At least six college students and four policemen were injured during the ding dong battle between the police and the students at MAM College today as the protests and strike for open choice in University examination entered 36th consecutive day.
As per the eyewitnesses when the students under the leadership of Naseeb Ali , Yasir Farooq from MAM College ABVP Unit tried to come outside the college heavy deployment of police forces deployed tried to stop them from coming outside the college.
According to reports, police resorted to use stung guns and water canons and also used teargas when the students pelted stones on the policemen from inside the college , in retaliation that resulted in virtual clash between them which continued for few hours. Also, the vehicular movement remained suspended on the road for the period.
Whereas the students on the other side stated that the police first started using brutal force against them and then they retaliate. According to some of the students, police forces started chasing them inside the college campus and even reached inside the college hostel and classrooms of the colleges.
Condemning heavy presence of police force outside the college campus several student leaders alleged that the concerned authorities had virtually turned the area outside the College in to a fortress by way of deployment of thick columns of para military forces. The student leaders once again made it clear to the Jammu university authorities that the students demand is genuine and not out of context as they have suffered during the two month long agitation. The student leaders alleged that the teachers are to be blamed for their plight as they are furnishing misleading and half cooked information to the university authorities over the status of course completion. The student leaders alleged that the teachers in an attempt to hide their own inefficiency is feeding wrong information to the higher authorities and making a case against the students that they are agitating without any cause and seeking open choice by way of resorting to pressure tactics. The student leaders during their successive dialogue with the university authorities have apprised them with the status of course completion but they have not received any favorable response as the meeting ended in dead lock and moreover the committee formed by the a University of Jammu is not ready to accept the demands of students leaders.
On its part the university authorities have set up a high level committee to be headed by Dean Academic affairs Prof BPS Sehgal to prepare a comprehensive report on how to diffuse the situation emerging out of daily protest.
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