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| Taxpayers with JNU: Twitter in Support of JNU |
As the JNU fights turned fierce on Monday evening and the fighting understudies conflicted with Delhi Police faculty, a pattern rose on Twitter on Tuesday with many turn out on the side of the dissent.
The Twitter hashtag #TaxPayersWithJNU was among the top patterns on the microblogging website on Tuesday, a day after the vicious fights in the city of Delhi.
Former JNUSU joint secretary and CPI(ML) member Kavita Krishnan lauded the trend and said, "Shout out to the trend #TaxPayersWithJNU Follow it, amplify it. This is a struggle, not for some island called JNU, but to ensure that University education is a right for all, not a privilege for the rich."
AAP social media coordinator Bhaskar Sharma wrote, "I am a taxpayer and I want more for the country from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, more like the Nobel laureate alumnus Abhijit Banerjee."
Another Twitter user wrote how he spent over Rs 8 lakh to complete his BCA course from Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut with a nominal family income. The Twitter user Priyank Sharma has demanded justice.
Many other students have also listed their fees structure amounting to several lakhs and added that their colleges too should have JNU-like funding facilities so that everyone has access to quality education.
Students of JNU clashed with police on Monday after they were stopped from marching to Parliament against a hostel fee hike, paralysing traffic and bringing the city to a halt.
The students additionally conflicted with the police outside Safdurjung tomb close to Jor Bagh. While the understudies claimed that they were stick charged by police, top police authorities denied having utilized any power.
JNU understudies took out a gigantic dissent walk on Monday against the ongoing charge climb over which a fomentation has been continuing for more than three weeks.
Confronting hardened fights for half a month, the JNU organization had in part moved back the lodging charge climb for BPL understudies not benefiting any grant, a move which neglected to fulfil fomenting understudies who named it as an "eyewash", and chose to proceed with the strike.
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