[Reader-list] Where did Democracy go?

[Aaditya Dar]

*Students protesting reservations arrested in **Delhi** **University **:
released after warning.* NSUI election campaigners from outside
Delhiwelcomed with open arms by Police in the same premises.

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*"Elephants, camels and students from Rohtak, Haryana allowed. Students from
**Delhi** **University** not allowed." – **Aaditya Dar**, **US** member,
protesting the Police action.*





*North Campus, **Delhi** **University**, 23rd Aug:* In a strange display of
inverted logic the Delhi Police today found it fit to arrest five members of
United Students in the University premises form leading protests against the
decision of the cabinet regarding quota extensions for OBCs in government
aided educational institutions.



In the same premises, about a thousand hired hands of the NSUI were going
beserk at their annual 'shakti pradarshan' – a show of strength to garner
tickets for the forth coming elections at DUSU but the Police were clearly
on very good terms with them. " It was incredible to see that elephants,
camels and students from Rohtak, Haryana were allowed to have a   field day,
but Students from Delhi university were not.", said Aaditya Dar, a core
group member of US.



"The Police had been seeing us prepare for the protest meeting at
Vivekananda Statue in the Arts Faculty since 10 in the morning and there was
no hint of any trouble," said Dar. "At 1 p.m., once the NSUI gangs started
getting active, the Police rounded up five of us without reason and shoved
us into police vans after threatening us with arrest".



"It was astonishing to see that the group in control of DUSU has no interest
whatsoever in projecting or supporting the students cause," said Ritwik
Agrawal, a US member and student of Hindu College.



United Students members had planned a demonstration at the Arts faculty
after news of the cabinet clearance reached students. Students said that
when the Police saw the number of protesters start to swell at the
demonstration, they decided to break up the meeting, threatening the
gathering and forcing the students to disperse.



United Students members are continuing their protests in DU tomorrow with
another round of demonstrations and peaceful gathering at the Wall of
Democracy.
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