Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav Be a part of Protest In opposition to UGC Draft Guidelines – News18
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Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav joined the protest in opposition to the UGC’s draft laws at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
Akhilesh and Rahul joins DMK college students wing protest in Delhi in opposition to UGC’s draft laws. (Picture: PTI)
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav joined DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi on Wednesday, as the coed wing of her social gathering staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in opposition to the UGC’s draft laws.
Whereas addressing the DMK pupil wing’s protest in opposition to the College Grants Fee (UGC) draft guidelines, Rahul stated, “I’ve been saying this now for someday that the goal of the RSS is the eradication of all different histories, all different cultures all different traditions on this nation. That’s their place to begin and is what they wish to obtain. They attacked the Structure as a result of they wish to impose one concept which is their concept, one historical past, one custom, one language on this nation and this try that they’re doing with the schooling system of the totally different states… that is simply one other try to push their agenda.”
Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav, talking in help of the protest, additionally condemned the New Schooling Coverage launched by the Centre.
Akhilesh stated, “The Samajwadi Social gathering totally helps this protest in opposition to the New Schooling Coverage being launched by the central authorities. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the previous Prime Minister, as soon as stated that should you hold supporting industrialists, there’ll come a day once you turn out to be their servants. This New Schooling Coverage is a conspiracy handy over universities to industrialists. They goal to strip state governments of their powers and switch politicians into servants of industrialists. We are going to by no means help this coverage.”
He additional added, “They wish to seize all of the powers of the state governments. They wish to make politicians servants of industrialists. We are able to by no means help the New Schooling Coverage. I stand with all the scholars right here and with the choice you may have made. I’m in opposition to the NEP. I’m in opposition to the BJP.”
The protest got here a month after the Tamil Nadu Meeting handed a decision on January 9, demanding that the Centre instantly withdraw the laws. All events, besides the BJP, supported the decision, together with NDA ally Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Tamil Nadu’s foremost opposition, AIADMK.
Chief Minister MK Stalin had stated on the time, “The draft UGC guidelines are nothing however an try by the Union Authorities to usurp universities that state governments have constructed utilizing their very own sources and financial power. The principles are in opposition to federalism.” On January 20, Stalin wrote to Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urging the withdrawal of the draft UGC guidelines and, in a separate letter, urged his counterparts in non-BJP dominated states to cross resolutions in opposition to the Centre’s transfer.
