Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Sept 30: The Bharatiya Janata Party today strongly condemned the action taken by the police on the students of DBRAIT, who were protesting to press their long pending demands. The party demanded a judicial inquiry into the atrocities on the students and demanded action against the culprits.
Addressing media persons at the party headquarters today, the BJP State President Mr. Ajay Bairagi said that the issue of DBRAIT has taken a big shape. Students studying engineering have been demonstrating continuously for two months for various demands. He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is fully aware of the problems of the students.
He said that continuous efforts are being made by the party to solve the problems of the students.
Mr Bairagi said that in this regard, a letter was written on behalf of the party to the country’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Lieutenant Governor and Chief Secretary of A & N Administration.
He said that the party leaders had met the Chief Secretary and appealed to take concrete steps to resolve the issues of the students. In the middle of this month, when the Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University had visited Port Blair, party leaders even got the Vice-Chancellor to speak directly to the students over phone. After this, the students had withdrawn the protest.
He said that on September 28, the students once again sat on a dharna without any prior notice by jamming the wheel. Due to this attitude of the students, tourists, mainland travellers, patients, school going students, job going people had to face a lot of difficulties. He said that when the police forcefully removed the children from there in the night, after that the party leaders visited the hospital to know about the condition of children in the hospital. At the same time, the detained children were released after party leaders spoke to the Superintendent of Police.
He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is with the legitimate demands of the children. But some people are spreading confusion by making children pawns. Mr Bairagi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party thanks the Chief Secretary for coming forward and intervening in this issue.
Former BJP President Vishal Jolly has said that the issue of DBRAIT is not only about the students there, but it has become a matter of the people of the entire archipelago. There is so much corruption happening in this institution but why has the matter not come to the fore even after passing so many years. Now the matter of this institution has taken a very serious form.
Mr. Jolly said that we need a good quality engineering college for our children. Good quality polytechnic college is required. Good quality management college is needed. We have nothing to do with any person. There should be a CBI inquiry into this whole matter and strict action should be taken against whoever is guilty for this. He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is very concerned about the DBRAIT issue.
For the welfare of the students, the party is continuously working in the interest of the students. He said that on Thursday, for the interests of the students, a meeting was held in the office of the Chief Secretary with the office bearers of various organizations. All the matters of DBRAIT were discussed in the meeting. He said that the meeting condemned the action taken by the police on the students during the Chakka Jam and demanded a magisterial inquiry into it, to which the Chief Secretary agreed. Apart from this, all the issues on which the students were concerned were discussed, he said. The Chief Secretary has assured that the interests of the children have been taken up on priority basis, he added.
