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Shimla — The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Himachal Pradesh, has strongly condemned the police lathi-charge on students during its protest outside the state assembly, accusing the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led government of failing on education, employment and security fronts.
ABVP state minister Nancy Atal alleged that the government has revealed its “cruel and barbaric face” by ordering police action against protesting students. “Raising students’ voices is a democratic right, but today democracy was strangled in Himachal when female students were beaten with sticks and kicked by police personnel. More than a dozen activists have been seriously injured,” she said.
“Government is Weak and Afraid”
Atal charged that in the past three years, the state government has hollowed out the education system, left universities leaderless, misled youth with false promises of jobs, and failed to maintain law and order. “Now by attacking female students, the government has shown its true mentality. This government is cowardly, weak, and scared of the rising voice of students,” she declared.
She warned that ABVP will intensify its struggle: “As much as the government has harassed youth in the last three years, ABVP will hold it accountable on every front in the next two years. We will not remain silent.”
Key Issues Raised by ABVP
- Student union elections not being restored, termed an attack on democratic rights.
- Expansion of Sardar Patel University repeatedly denied.
- Agriculture University Palampur, Technical University Hamirpur, and Dr. Y.S. Parmar University (Nauni) running for years without permanent vice-chancellors.
- Central University Dharamshala campus stuck in files, with ₹30 crore not released, showing government’s “non-seriousness.”
- New Education Policy not implemented; infrastructure collapse at HPU and SPU.
- Decision to convert 100 schools criticized as undermining the autonomy of the education board.
- Five lakh jobs promise dismissed as false; law and order “collapsed” with drug mafia unchecked.
“Final Warning to Government”
ABVP accused the government of choosing repression over dialogue. “When students raised these issues through assembly gherao, instead of listening, the government unleashed police brutality. This shows the government neither wants to hear the youth nor solve issues of education and employment,” Atal said.
Issuing a final warning, she added: “ABVP will not let this oppressive government sit in peace, whether on the streets or inside the assembly. If our demands are not met immediately, the next two years will be the toughest for this government.”
