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| Declare loyalties with Jammu openly: CUAS | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 2: In what it described as open declaration loyalties with Jammu, the Central University Abdolan Samiti today invited the Ministers and Legislators from the region to attend one of its forthcoming meetings on the issue.
Paviter Singh, convener of Central University Andolan Samiti –a conglomerate various organizations spearheading agitation for establishment of Central University in Jammu –today said that Jammu based Minister and Legislators have speaking two languages on the issue and they must clear their stand.
“We only demand immediate notification to acquire the land at Samba which has already been identified without any loss of time and office of Vice Chancellor of Central University along with its staff should be shifted to Samba district for establishment of the University”, Paviter Singh said at a press conference here today. He alleged that State and Central Government are deliberately creating confusion over this matter.
He once again appealed to Jammu based leaders, MLAs and Ministers to support the cause. He informed that as per CUAS program on September 6 at Meridian Palace, Samiti invites all MLAs of Jammu province including Deputy Chief Minister and Ministers from Jammu to listen the sentiments of Jammu province on Central University Issue.
He further said that CUAS will visit New-Delhi to meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, HRD Minister Kapil Sibel and Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who proposed CU to Jammu. The relay hunger strike would also be launched from the next week.
Singh said, “Police and administration are themselves provoking the things here in Jammu by using brutal force on peaceful protest of students who are demanding establishment of Central University in Jammu”.
“Brutality of police has been increasing day by day to quell the voice of students community and I must ask one thing to government and Police not to provoke the students to come out on violent path”, he said adding, “we are fighting for cause of Jammu in a very peaceful manner if government tries to create wedge and weaken the movement by going hard on CUAS leaders, they have to face dire consequences”.
He alleged that students who have been actively involved in this movement are being harassed by the police and they (Police) are warned for dire consequences. He criticized the police and district administration for arresting the students from Parade College and asked administration to release the arrested students.
Speaking on behalf of students, CUAS Secretary Suresh Ajay Magotra said that brutality of police will provoke the students to come out on violent path and change of strategy.
He informed today 25 students of Boys Higher Secondary School Akhnoor were injured in police lathicharge in which three were seriously injured and one also shifted to GMC Jammu. Six students in Parade College and two in Samba were arrested by the police while they were distributing pamphlets as per CUAS program, he said.
While condemning the police action, Magotra categorically said this brutality will not be tolerated at any cost by the Samiti.
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