Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 25: Student groups in Jamia Millia Islamia are now planning to screen the controversial BBC Documentary on PM Modi on their campus at 6 pm today, A day after the students of JNU attempted to screen the documentary, India: The Modi Question.
This comes despite a prior notice by the university administration, asking students to refrain from screening the BBC documentary.
According to the officials, the protest will be held near the university gate at 4 pm today.
Four students have reportedly been arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly making a scene outside Jamia Milia Islamia University during today’s BBC documentary showing.
Four students have been detained for allegedly creating a ruckus outside Jamia Milia Islamia University over the screening of the BBC documentary today: Delhi Police
— ANI (@ANI) January 25, 2023
The university has increased its security.
“This is to reiterate that no meeting/gathering of students shall be allowed in any part of the campus including lawns and gates without prior permission of the competent authority, failing which strict disciplinary action shall be taken against the organizers,” the University notice read.
Earlier, Several students gathered on Tuesday, and the administration at the Jawaharlal Nehru University allegedly cut power and the internet to stop the students’ union from screening the controversial BBC documentary on PM Modi. The students, meanwhile, also staged a protest after stones were allegedly thrown at them.
Later in the night, the protesting students marched to the Vasant Kunj police station raising slogans of ‘Inqlaab Zindabad’ and against the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration, to lodge a complaint against the ‘stone pelters’.
A JNU administration Official said in their statement that they are having an “issue with major power (line) faults at their university. We are looking into it, the engineering department is saying it will be resolved soon.”
