[Reader-list] Where did Democracy go?

[Harshvardhan Tripathi]

dear aaditya
i don't think it's matter of democracy. it's just a vote bank politics. that's why not a ingle Member of parliament is oppsing reservation in prestigious institutes like IIT, IIM and Research institutes. And finally RICH OBC IS ALSO ALLOWED TO AWAIL RESERVATION BENEFIT.

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



"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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