After harassing faculty and vandalizing statues, JNU students are misbehaving with female journos

In yet another embarrassing incident for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the protesting band of students stooped to a new low as they heckled the female reporters covering their protest, misbehaving with them. The reporters were covering the protest against the fee hike of hostels in JNU and other facilities, which has been partially rolled back as of now.

According to DNA analysis, titled, “Is Article 370 imposed in JNU?” two female reporters of Zee News were present in the JNU campus in order to cover the situation following the rollback of the fees hike. The JNU administration had released a list, wherein some of the facilities as allotted in JNU were subjected to a hike, including hostel fees, mess charges, establishment charges etc. For example, a single-seater hostel room, which was charged at an abysmally low rate of Rs. 20 per month, would now be charged at Rs. 600 per month, which is still dirt cheap if compared with other institutions of India.

However, the leftist brigade saw it as a threat to their supremacy and organized a massive protest within the campus, bringing the campus life to a standstill. In the name of protesting against the fees hike, the leftist brigade resorted to vandalism within the campus. From disrupting the convocation ceremony to vandalizing the statue of Swami Vivekananda before the official inauguration, you name it and the anarchists did it. To be fair, the protests against the fee hike exhibit a strong sense of entitlement within the JNU students. They have assumed that they have the right of getting their stay at JNU subsidized by the nation, the very nation that they love to slander.

Cut to the coverage of Zee News. The two female reporters [names withheld] were surrounded by a group of protesting students, who taunted them with jibes like ‘Godi Media Go Back’, ‘Zee News Go Back’, and ‘Zee News Murdabad!’ etc. However, if that wasn’t enough, the band of protesters started heckling and misbehaving with the female reporters, even going to the extent of disrupting the live coverage with their instruments.

Journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who hosts the DNA analysis, fiercely criticized the incident that occurred with the Zee News reporters. To quote an excerpt from his analysis, “The very people who cry freedom of expression couldn’t tolerate the mere presence of our reporters and they exhibited their intolerance towards them openly…………These people want to reserve the freedom of expression for themselves. They want to raise anti India slogans, they want to create Afzal premi gangs. They have the freedom to do everything, but nobody in this nation can have the freedom to disagree with them.” 

However, this is not the first instance where the leftist band of anarchists, who claim to be students, resorted to vandalism. Only a couple of days ago, the statue of Swami Vivekananda, which was to be inaugurated by 14 November, was vandalized by unknown assailants. What’s worse, abusive statements were inscribed below the statue, all directed against either the right-wing ideology or the incumbent BJP government. A team of IANS journalists were also assaulted by the leftist protesters in the same manner on November 12.

Even the women security officers of JNU weren’t spared either. On the night of November 14, they were assaulted and heckled by the band of protesters. Yet, it is they who are deliberately portrayed by the mainstream media as the ‘victims’, and not the ones who have been agonized by the same. The quote of Malcolm X on the oppressors being painted as ‘oppressed’ fits aptly on this situation.

The incident in JNU further reveals the living hell that this institute has become. The revolutionary president of USA, Abraham Joseph Lincoln once quoted, ‘Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents …pleaded mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.’ Had he been alive, and witnessed the hypocrisy that the ‘scion of intellectual terrorists’ practice in JNU, he would have ruefully agreed over his own quote becoming a reality.