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| What women did in Lucknow in 1930 Jammu girls did it on August 4 | | Central University | | Neha
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 5: What women in Lucknow did in 1930 during the civil disobedience movement the girl students in Jammu, the seat and center of Duggar civilization, did it on Thursday while taking active part in the establish-Jammu Central University-movement. In 1930, the civil disobedience "marked a major step forward in the emancipation of Indian women - a point admitted by a U.P. police official in a note full of male chauvinist overtones: 'The Indian woman is struggling for domestic and national liberty at the same time and like a woman she is utterly unreasonable and illogical in her demands and in her methods, but like a woman she has enormous influence over the stronger sex…many local officials, including police officers, have…suffered more from taunts and abuse from their female relatives than any other source."
It needs to be underlined that women in Lucknow and elsewhere in the country had taunted and abused those government officials, including their husbands, who, instead of joining the civil disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, had been helping the British Government to crush the freedom struggle. The result of these taunts and abuses was that many an official joined the civil disobedience movement.
What happened in Jammu yesterday could be compared with what happened in Lucknow and elsewhere during the crucial civil disobedience days. What exactly happened in Jammu yesterday? Continuing their struggle on the 36th consecutive day for the establishment of Jammu Central University and appointment of its first Vice-Chancellor, students under the banner of National Panther Students Union (NPSU) boycotted their classes in various Degree Colleges of Jammu Province, besides staging protest demonstrations. There was nothing new in what the NPSU did as what it did yesterday was what Jammu had been witnessing since the last more than 35 days.
However, it was the girl students who gave an altogether a different orientation to the ongoing struggle in Jammu. During the protest demonstrations, the agitating girl students offered bangles (chudian) to the ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs belonging to the Duggar Pradesh for what they called "their failure in raising the issue of Jammu people at the right time and at right forum." The colleges where the protest demonstrations were organized and bangles offered by students to leaders included Government College for Women (Gandhi Nagar), SPMR College of Commerce, GGM Science College, MAM College and Government Degree Colleges in Paloura, Samba, Ramnagar, Udhampur and Kathua.
It would be only appropriate if what the girl students of the Government College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, did yesterday is referred to here to put things in perspective. The students boycotted their classes and their leaders like Shalu, Preeti Chib, Neha Chib, Wazeefa Khan and Meena Kumari, all NPSU activists, addressed the girl students. Addressing them, these young angry girls said: "Ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs of Jammu province are of no use and they deserved to wear bungles and sit at home rather than misleading and looting the innocent public." Besides, they appealed to the people of Jammu region to "socially boycott these leaders and start campaign in their respective areas for not letting anybody to attend programmes or public meetings of such leaders of Jammu region who have failed Jammu province and its people."
What the girl students did in Jammu yesterday must make the ministers and legislators belonging to Jammu province sit down and review the approach they have adopted towards their own constituencies. Such a review has become imperative in view of the latest development. Any failure on their part to do so or any failure on their part to identify themselves with the agitating student community and its supporters across Duggar Pradesh would only render them irrelevant for all practical purposes. It is their fundamental duty to put pressure on the callous authorities so that the Jammu Central University becomes functional and its Vice-Chancellor appointed. |
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