BJP’s campaign against higher education comes straight out of the authoritarian playbook used by many governments. FMTNews Modi India
On Jan 5, masked men and women stormed the New Delhi campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University , where I am a professor, and attacked the students and faculty they found there with sticks, iron rods, and scythes.
On the contrary, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has been actively cultivating this narrative for a long time, and, since coming to power in 2014, the BJP government has been using pliant media to vilify universities, especially those like JNU whose faculty and students have criticised the ruling dispensation.
During the attack on JNU, security guards and police allowed the aggressors in, turned off streets lights to enable their violence and vandalism, and stopped anyone, including media, from entering or leaving the campus. On the same day, police carried out a similar, but even more violent attack on Aligarh Muslim University. One doctoral student had to have his right hand amputated after it was hit by a tear-gas shell.
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