A Congress member in Rajya Sabha today raised the issue of police lathicharge at NIT in Srinagar and accused the ruling BJP of not allowing the students to hoist the national flag there.
During the Zero Hour, Pramod Tiwari said ever since BJP government came to power at the Centre, organisations related to it were trying to create unrest in educational institutions, be it Hyderbad University, JNU or NIT Srinagar.
He accused the ruling party of adopting double standards regarding national flag, saying BJP’s policy regarding the national flag in Kashmir was different from the rest of the country.
Students of the NIT wanted to hoist the national flag at their campus, but they were beaten up, he said, adding that these NIT students were now protesting in Delhi.
“They (students) were only demanding that they be allowed to hoist the national flag and BJP government is not letting them hoist the tricolour…They are not permitting this,” the Congress member said while criticising BJP and organisations related to it.
He alleged that the BJP was “sowing seeds of poison” in educational insitutions of the country.(Agencies)
