Watch: Gujarat Vidyapith students complain about police entry on campus to disrupt CAA protests
The police reportedly attempted, but failed, to stop the flying of kites with anti-CAA messages.
After IIM Ahmedabad, police enter Mahatma Gandhi founded #Gujarat Vidyapith to disrupt kite festival organised by some students who wanted to fly kites carrying messages of anti CAA @DeccanHerald pic.twitter.com/vjiBMGfw0J
— satish jha. (@satishjha) January 14, 2020
Police officials entered the Gujarat Vidyapith university in Ahmedabad on Tuesday morning to disrupt an event where the students were flying kites with anti-Citizenship Amendment Act messages on them, Deccan Herald reported. The students, however, went ahead with their programme, the report added. Gujarat celebrates the kite-flying festival Uttarayan on January 14.
A video of the students questioning the police move has gone viral on Twitter.
Gujarat Vidyapith has founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
This was not the first incident when the Gujarat Police had entered an educational institute in Ahmedabad to disrupt a protest against the citizenship law. On January 5, the police had reportedly entered the campus of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and disrupted the event “IIM-A stands up for democracy”.
Perhaps for the first time after Independence police entered the campus of Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
— Kannan Gopinathan (@naukarshah) January 14, 2020
To prevent students from flying kites.
But students stood their ground,
and kites flew in the sky!#Resistance #Ahmedabad #NoToCAA_NRC_NPR pic.twitter.com/QBi7jiyiCl
