After CAA stir, Madras university advances Christmas holidays
TNN | Dec 18, 2019, 05.41 AM IST
TNN | Dec 18, 2019, 05.41 AM IST
CHENNAI: Madras University on Tuesday declared a holiday to all university departments till December 23 following protests by students against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). This effectively advanced the Christmas holidays as the university is scheduled to close on December 24 and will reopen on January 1, 2020.
In an informal communication, the university asked departments to postpone examinations to after January 1. “The university will function and we have only suspended classes to diffuse the situation,” an university official told TOI.
More than 100 students from various departments on Tuesday staged a protest at the university’s Chepauk campus against CAA and in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia who faced police action. They raised slogans against the Union government and the Delhi police and did not disburse till the time of going to press.
“In the CAA, the Centre has deliberately left out the Sri Lankan Tamils living in Tamil Nadu for the past four decades,” C Murugan, one of the protesting students, said. The situation grew tense when police refused to allow students from affiliated colleges to join the protest.
Students from New College, The Quaide Milleth College for Men, Madras Christian College, Presidency College and School of Excellence in Law also staged protests condemning police action against students. “We wanted to express our solidarity with the students who were attacked by police and boycotted our classes,” a student from School of Excellence in Law said.
In an informal communication, the university asked departments to postpone examinations to after January 1. “The university will function and we have only suspended classes to diffuse the situation,” an university official told TOI.
More than 100 students from various departments on Tuesday staged a protest at the university’s Chepauk campus against CAA and in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia who faced police action. They raised slogans against the Union government and the Delhi police and did not disburse till the time of going to press.
“In the CAA, the Centre has deliberately left out the Sri Lankan Tamils living in Tamil Nadu for the past four decades,” C Murugan, one of the protesting students, said. The situation grew tense when police refused to allow students from affiliated colleges to join the protest.
Students from New College, The Quaide Milleth College for Men, Madras Christian College, Presidency College and School of Excellence in Law also staged protests condemning police action against students. “We wanted to express our solidarity with the students who were attacked by police and boycotted our classes,” a student from School of Excellence in Law said.
No comments:
Post a Comment