Students Now Protesting Without Shirts, Effect Of PM Modi's 'Identified By Clothes' Comment?
PM Narendra Modi in a rally in Jharkhand said that Congress and its supporters are burning public property. He further said those creating violence can be identified by their clothes itself. Did he mean that the protesters have a certain identity or they come from a specific background The comment is up for speculation and interpretation.
After Delhi Police¡¯s violent beatings of student protesters at Jamia, universities across the nation stood up in protest; Guwahati University, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, Aligarh University among others.
As students protested against CAA and NRC, PM Narendra Modi in a rally in Jharkhand said that Congress and its supporters are burning public property, he further said ¡°those creating violence can be identified by their clothes itself,¡± without further elaboration.
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Did he mean that the protesters have a certain identity or they come from a specific background? The comment is up for speculation and interpretation. But just a day after, a group of Jamia Millia students protested shirtless in spine chilling cold outside the university gate. They formed a human chain to protest against the police action against students on December 15.
The students carried a tricolour and raised slogans against the central government and Delhi Police.
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One is tempted to ask, whether this sign of protest was instigated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s comment in the Jharkhand rally.
The protesters who could be ¡®identified by their clothes itself¡¯, stripped themselves of that identity, they are now standing against authority sans identity, so to say. What and how will they be identified now?
If the protesters indeed removed their clothes in response to PM Modi¡¯s comment, then the act proves to be an act of subversion and commands respect.
