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Jawaharlal Nehru University, one of the largest in the Indian capital New Delhi, was attacked this Sunday, January 5 by a hundred assailants, and their teachers and union activists beaten.
With our correspondent in New Delhi, Sébastien Farcis
It is 6.30 p.m., the night has just fallen on the capital when dozens of masked and hooded young men pour into the buildings of the Jawaharlal Nehru university, sticks and iron bars in hand. They ransack part of the premises, the cars and attack teachers and students. They are particularly targeting the president of the university's student union, Aishe Ghosh, who appeared on a video posted on Twitter, her face in blood.
This attack is very symbolic: Nehru University is not only one of the most prestigious faculties of human sciences in the country, the Indian equivalent of the Sorbonne, it is also one of the pillars of liberal and secular thought that the The ruling Hindu nationalist government seeks to fight, particularly during the current debates around the citizenship law.
The assailants were not clearly identified, but all accuse the student union ABVP, linked to the ruling party, in particular because the victims were forced to sing nationalist songs. The government, for its part, only reacted belatedly and timidly to this attack, while the New Delhi police, under its control, took a long time to intervene. The opposition and secular intellectuals denounce the fascist drift of a government that seeks to silence its youth educated by force.