EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Fascists afraid of students: Rahul NCP gets crucial Home, Universities should remain places of learning and education, says BJP Finance portfolios Special Correspondent agenda,” Mr. Yechury the role of the police in al­ New Delhi tweeted. lowing the violence. “What While the Congress demand According to sources, the Political parties across the “Masked attackers en­ we are seeing on live TV is for extra portfolios was the Sena chief wants to follow spectrum condemned the tered JNU while law enfor­ shocking and horrifying. reason for the delay, the in­ the Delhi model set by Ar­ violent attack on the stu­ cers stood by. This video is Masked men enter JNU hos­ ternal dispute in the NCP on vind Kejriwal. His son and dents and teachers of Jawa­ what RSS/BJP want to con­ tels and attack students. who should get Home slowed first­time MLA Aaditya harlal Nehru University vert India to. They will not What is the police doing? Mayhem on campus: An image released by a JNUSU office­ down the process. Thackeray has been given ( JNU) on Sunday, with most be allowed to succeed,” he Where is the Police Commis­ bearer of a damaged section of the campus. * PTI Ultimately NCP chief Sha­ charge of the environment, of the Opposition leaders added and tagged the video sioner? If it is happening on rad Pawar chose Mr. Desh­ tourism and protocol depart­ blaming the ruling dispensa­ that showed the JNU Stu­ live TV, it is an act of impun­ mukh from Katol constituen­ ments. tion for the violence. dents Union president badly ity and can only happen cy stressing on the need to Senior Congress leader Ba­ Former Congress chief Ra­ bleeding. with the support of the go­ HRD Ministry seeks expand the party in the Vi­ lasaheb Thorat has got the re­ hul Gandhi tweeted with the External Affairs Minister vernment. This is beyond darbha region. venue ministry, while his hash tag #SOSJNU. JNUSU president Aishe S. Jaishankar and Finance belief,” said Mr. Chidamba­ The Chief Minister, who af­ party colleague and former “The brutal attack on JNU Ghosh was injured in the Minister Nirmala Sithara­ ram in a statement. * report on violence ter taking charge last month, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan students & teachers by attack on the campus. PTI man, both of whom were Condemning the attack, had said that he would not got the Public Works Depart­ masked thugs, that has left former JNU students, con­ West Bengal Chief Minister like to be confined to the four ment (PWD), excluding pu­ many seriously injured, is BJP’s official handle tweeted. demned the attack. “Horrify­ Mamata Banerjee said a Tri­ Alumni in govt. service flay violence walls of his office but prefer blic undertakings. shocking. The fascists in con­ CPI(M) general secretary ing images from JNU — the namool delegation will visit to reach out to the people, Senior Shiv Sena leader trol of our nation, are afraid Sitaram Yechury, who has place I know & remember JNU to express solidarity Special Correspondent turn to Delhi in light of the has decided not to keep any Subhash Desai has got indus­ of the voices of our brave been a former president of was one for fierce debates & with the students. “We New Delhi attacks on the JNU campus. of the key ministries with tries and mineral depart­ students. Today’s violence in the JNU students’ union, al­ opinions but never violence. strongly condemn brutality The Human Resource Deve­ His predecessor R. Sub­ him. ments, while party leader JNU is a reflection of that leged that the violence on I unequivocally condemn unleashed agst students/ lopment Ministry has asked rahmanyam, now Social Jus­ This is for the first time in Anil Parab got the transport fear,” Mr. Gandhi said on the campus was part of the the events of today. This teachers in JNU. No words the Registrar of the Jawahar­ tice Secretary, condemned two decades that the CM will and parliamentary affairs de­ Twitter. Hindutva agenda of the govt, regardless of what has enough to describe such hei­ lal Nehru University to send the violence in strong terms not be holding charge of the partments. The delay in port­ The BJP hit back at the Op­ Rashtriya Swayamsevak been said the past few nous acts. A shame on our an immediate detailed re­ on Twitter. "#JNUViolence Urban Development Depart­ folio allocation led to opposi­ position and accused it of Sangh (RSS). weeks, wants universities to democracy,” she said. port on the current situa­ completely unacceptable ment (UDD). Sena’s Ek nath tion Bharatiya Janata Party politicising campuses. “We be safe spaces for all stu­ Former Uttar Pradesh CM tion on campus, HRD Secre­ and shameful. I condemn Shinde will be the UD minis­ (BJP) leaders suggesting that strongly condemn the vio­ ‘Planned attack’ dents,” Ms. Sitharaman said. Akhilesh Yadav blamed the tary Amit Khare told The the violence is no uncertain ter, along with Public Works the MVA government ‘auc­ lence on JNU campus. This is “Reports coming from JNU “Have seen pictures of BJP for the violence. Hindu on Sunday evening. terms and demand imme­ (Public Undertaking). tion’ the Cabinet berths. a desperate attempt by forc­ point to a collusion between what is happening in #JNU. “Masked men attacking "Definitely, it is a serious diate action against the hoo­ es of anarchy, who are deter­ the administration and Condemn the violence un­ teachers and students in JNU matter. I am speaking with ligans," he tweeted. mined to use students as goons of ABVP to inflict vio­ equivocally. This is com­ shows the low to which the the Vice­Chancellor. We Mr. Subrahmanyam, an 219 infant deaths at two cannon fodder, create unrest lence on students and teach­ pletely against the tradition government will stoop in or­ have called for an imme­ alumnus of JNU himself, was to shore up their shrinking ers. It is a planned attack by and culture of the universi­ der to rule through fear. The diate detailed report from transferred out of the HRD political footprint. Universi­ those in power, which is ty,” Mr. Jaishankar tweeted. ABVP are acting like the the Registrar," said Mr. Ministry last month in the Gujarat hospitals in Dec. ties should remain places of afraid of the resistance pro­ Former Union Minister P. storm troopers of the BJP,” Khare, just before boarding wake of massive JNU prot­ learning and education,” the vided by JNU to its Hindutva Chidambaram questioned he said. a flight from Bhopal to re­ ests on Delhi roads. The increase in infant are born. Of these, 30 of ev­ deaths in December was ery 1,000 infants die owing mainly due to more referral to malnutrition and prema­ IN BRIEF patients coming with se­ ture delivery or because the rious ailments. mothers are unable to reach Stone­throwing scales a peak in J&K in 2019 As soon as the matter sur­ hospital in time.” Mr. Patel faced in the media and on argued that there was no social media, Chief Minister dearth of facilities at govern­ RTI reply says there was a spike in numbers after the special status was withdrawn in August Vijay Rupani, who is from ment hospitals or health Rajkot, refused to respond centres. Vijaita Singh rist violence stood at 282, and walked off when jour­ Officials said the Rajkot New Delhi while 309 incidents were re­ The number of stone­throw­ ported from August to nalists asked him about the hospital caters to the needs Akali Dal questions deaths. of several districts, so the ing incidents in Jammu and November. Sidhu’s silence The Opposition Congress number there is higher. Al­ Kashmir rose in 2019 from Union Home Minister CHANDIGARH criticised him for being eva­ so, the number of deliveries the figures recorded in 2017 Amit Shah told the television The Shiromani Akali Dal on sive.“The Chief Minister is goes up in November and and 2018, according to data channel ABP News last week Sunday hit out at Congress from Rajkot where health­ December. provided by the Union Home that the situation was “un­ leader Navjot Singh Sidhu care has collapsed. He Among the factors are the Ministry in response to a der control” in the Union questioning his silence on the shamelessly runs away from shortage of medical staff at Right to Information (RTI) Territory and routine activi­ alleged hate attack on Sikhs journalists,” said Congress government hospitals and Act application. ties were going on. as wells as Gurdwara State president Amit Chav­ the collapse of primary Till November 30, 2019, as Nankana Sahib in Pakistan. da. healthcare services. many as 1,996 such incidents Ceasefire violations Former Minister Maheshinder Deputy Chief Minister Ni­ But officials maintain that had been reported. The RTI reply also said that Singh Grewal said Mr. Sidhu tin Patel, who also holds the the reasons include prema­ In the whole of 2017 and 3,086 ceasefire violations or should explain his silence on Health portfolio, said infant ture delivery, low birth 2018, however, the numbers firing from Pakistan’s side the issues of forced mortality rate was decreas­ weight, infection and as­ stood at 1,412 and 1,458, had been reported along the conversion of a minor Sikh ing, and now stands at 30 phyxiation among infants respectively. Line of Control (LoC), with girl in Pakistan and the deaths per 1,000 newborns. referred to government hos­ the highest of 398 recorded subsequent turn of events. “Every year, 12 lakh infants pitals.