Ban on rallies in the campus is undemocratic

03 September, 2012

DUSU Election Campaign Committee Convenor Rakesh Kumar Dubey said that holding rallies by students, teachers and non-teaching employees for their cause is a democratic right that cannot be snatched away by an arbitrary order.

THE SOCIALIST Yuvjan Sabha (SYS) strongly opposed the undemocratic ban imposed by the Delhi University authorities on holding rallies in the campus and said it is ùndemocratic’.

DUSU Election Campaign Committee Convenor Rakesh Kumar Dubey said that holding rallies by students, teachers and non-teaching employees for their cause is a democratic right which cannot be snatched away by an arbitrary order.

If members of a particular organization have misbehaved as stated by the authorities, he suggested that they should be booked and punished as per the rules. As of now, he wondered that nobody has been identified or arrested in this connection.

He lamented that this apparently shows that the university authorities have imposed the ban to hide and underplay their responsibility. The SYS appeals to the authorities to withdraw the undemocratic order and to take stern action against the guilty.

According to Dubey, the SYS has planned to fight all the four posts in the DUSU elections to be held on 14 September 2012. With this in view, the Delhi unit of the SYS had decided a week ago to hold a rally in the North Campus on 5 September.

In case the DU authorities do not withdraw the order of ban, it warned that members of SYS will assemble at Vivekanand Chowk to convey/place the issues before the student community.