AMU students protest against sedition charges in Delhi

Students of Aligarh Muslim University protested outside the UP Bhawan in New Delhi after fourteen AMU students were booked under sedition charges. The students demanded immediate dropping of charges levied against them.

Lucknow: Students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took out a protest against the BJP government on Tuesday, after fourteen AMU students, including their union president, were booked under sedition charges. The students protested in front of the UP Bhawan in New Delhi demanding the concerned officials to drop the charges levied against them.

Alleging the Yogi-Modi governments of suppressing dissent, students raised slogans and demanded scrapping of charges against their friends.

"Sedition charges against the students is absolutely unreasonable. The government is doing this only to suppress the voices that rise against them," a protester told ETV Bharat.

The students were booked under sedition charges after a complaint was filed by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activist Mukesh Lodhi, alleging that he was assaulted amid chants of pro-Pakistan slogans by some students.

Earlier, the students’ union called for a "class boycott". The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association had passed a resolution condemning legal action against students.