Demanding Immediate arrest of the Police officers who are responsible for this!!
Condemn
the police attack on the students of 150 year old Dr. Ambedkar Govt Law
College, Chennai that made their future questionable. The Police launched its
murderous attack on struggling students against the proposal of shifting the
college to the suburban area. We insist that a case has to be filed against the
police against the assassination attempt and the criminal police officers
should be arrested who are responsible for this.
This
college is centrally located in Chennai and the students struggle on various
issues creating an impact that pressurizes the government. These law college
students are the one who have repeatedly raised their voice for various social
issues. There are many examples of their
militant nature from the fight against the imposition of Hindi in 1965 to the
Struggle for Tamil Eelam at 2009. Many political leaders and activists have
emerged from this college. The Government wants to destroy the militant nature
of the students and most importantly their stance that "the students
should not be political, “is an attempt to keep the students away from the
political scene. They are branded as renegades and rowdies so that they cannot
fight for their rights.
At
the same time, the government has tried to remove a lot of colleges to the
suburbs where particularly the working class peoples children study, starting
from the attempt to remove Ranimarry college which was abandoned due to the
militant protest by the students. Next was an attempt to remove the Pachiappan
college in the name of Metro project. Now today it is the law college. The
actual purpose of the shifting the college is to let the upper class& CEOs
to live in a protest free city. This means that the struggle for the rights or
for raising the voices against the state, can be dealt with removing colleges
from the metropolis. This means the privatization of public colleges in the
future will be acceptable without any resistance due to such step-by-step
depoliticization that happens through such atrocious attack on student
politics.
