By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Campus Front of India conducted a students’ rally and protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on March 21 against the new higher education policy of the Centre. The group condemned the Central government’s move to neo-liberalize the education sector. Students from various universities of Delhi participated in the protest.
Md Aftab Alam – Delhi State President of Campus Front welcomed the gathering. Sarfaraz Ahmad – Delhi State General secretary of Campus Front presided over.
Md Aneesujjaman, National General Secretary, Campus Front of India expressed in his keynote address how corporate houses, politicians, and communal forces join hand to destroy the public education system. He called upon the student community, the parents and the general public to come forward, to defeat the neo-liberal design of the Centre.
Miss Banojyotsna, Representative of Democratic Students Union also addressed the gathering. She said that the neo-liberal forces are shaping the education for the benefit of the upper class. All kind of oppression throughout the world is interrelated. So the like-minded people should come together to defeat these oppressive forces, she added.
“The UPA government should drop both ‘National Commission for Higher Education and Research Bill, 2010’ and ‘The Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010’ bills by withdrawing the approval immediately,” the Protesters demanded.
A memorandum was also submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office at the end of the program.