{"id":316865,"date":"2019-11-18T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316865"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:24:55","slug":"jnu-protest-students-march-to-parliament-stopped-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jnu-protest-students-march-to-parliament-stopped-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"JNU Protest: Students march to Parliament, stopped by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316867 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jnu-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/jnu-protest.jpg 933w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/jnu-protest-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/jnu-protest-768x310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/jnu-protest-696x280.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/>Hundreds of Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students were on Monday stopped by the police from marching to Parliament to press for their demands for a complete rollback of the hostel fee hike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The agitation came on the first day of the winter session of the parliament. Several police personnel have been deployed outside the university campus ahead of the students\u2019 protest march to Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Updates<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As JNU students refused to back down and continue marching in protest, breaking the barricades, the CRPF has been rushed in to control the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Students have been protesting for over three weeks against the draft hostel manual, which has provisions for hostel fee hike, dress code and curfew timings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have stopped the students half a kilometer from the campus. After students refused to stop marching, the police have begun detaining several protestors. Barricades have been put up to stop the students within a 1 km radius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Section 144 has been imposed near the Parliament ahead of the protest march by Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#8217; Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The students&#8217; union has continued their protests despite the JNU administration announcing a partial rollback of the hike last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students were on Monday stopped by the police from marching to Parliament to press for their demands for a complete rollback of the hostel fee hike. The agitation came on the first day of the winter session of the parliament. Several police personnel have been deployed outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,929,898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316871,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316865\/revisions\/316871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}