Thousands of NSUI workers, led by Bihar Congress leaders, joined the ‘Vidhan Sabha March’ from Bihar Congress headquarters, Sadaqat Ashram, towards the Assembly.
The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, held a massive protest march on Thursday in Patna to highlight migration, unemployment, paper leaks, and the worsening education system in Bihar.
Thousands of NSUI workers, led by Bihar Congress leaders, joined the ‘Vidhan Sabha March’ from Bihar Congress headquarters, Sadaqat Ashram, towards the Assembly. However, they were stopped by the police even before entering the city.
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The police used water cannons and also conducted a lathi charge to disperse the crowd, injuring several protesters. Dozens of NSUI workers were also taken to the police station.
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Reacting to the police action, NSUI Bihar President Suraj Singh Yadav stated that they will not be intimidated by the government’s tyranny and oppression.
He said: “Tampering with students’ futures will not be tolerated. The government’s brutal police action, water cannons, batons, and jail cannot stop our struggle.”
Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar Ram said that the double-engine government of Bihar has completely failed in governing the state. An atmosphere of lawlessness has prevailed.
He said: “Instead of answering serious questions related to education, employment, migration, and paper leaks, the government is suppressing the voices of students and youth and playing with their future. Suffering from the government’s insensitivity, students are being driven to suicide.”
Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Bihar, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, said that the condition of higher education in Bihar is appalling. Academic sessions are irregular, there is a shortage of teachers and staff, and hostels and laboratories are in a state of disrepair.
He added that when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Ambedkar Hostel in Darbhanga to interact with students, the government used all its power to stop him in order to hide its failures.
“The government’s authoritarianism is at its peak,” he added.
Bihar Congress Legislative Council leader Madan Mohan Jha said that the government, through the New Education Policy, has primarily made education expensive, conspiring to deprive the poor, weak, and marginalised sections of society of education.
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