DUSU prez, others detained during pro-JNU protest

New Delhi, November 21

Several students, including top members of RSS student wing ABVP and the DUSU, were detained after a scuffle between protesters and security personnel near the Parliament Street police station on Thursday during a march to the HRD Ministry to oppose the proposed JNU hostel fee hike.

Among the detained students were Delhi University Students Union president Akshit Dhaiya, and ABVP’s state Secretary Siddharth Yadav. The Delhi Police had imposed prohibitory orders in the area and put up triple layer of barricades. Some protesters, however, climbed over the barricades and scuffled with the security personnel, who comprised CRPF personnel along with the Delhi Police.

The protesters raised slogans against the JNU administration and the HRD Ministry who, according to students, had unilaterally imposed fee hike on the students. — IANS/PTI

JNUTA members demand rollback of hostel fee

The members of JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Thursday held a meeting with the high-powered committee constituted by the HRD Ministry and demanded a complete roll back of the hostel fee hike, sources said. In the meeting that last over two hours, the teachers also demanded the removal of the Vice-Chancellor