Senior Communist Party Of India leader and Former Kerala revenue minister K Rajan MLA said that he and his party unanimously stand in support of the students and youth protesting against the Union Government’s education policies on education system and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Speaking exclusively to Deccan Chronicle about the students protests and government’s response to it, the former minister said that the Union Government has failed the students.
“The police and the central forces
have unleashed violence undemocratically upon peacefully protesting students,” he said. “Though the movement was started by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), it has evolved into a national movement against the Union Government and its anti-democratic policies.
It has now become a movement of Indian citizens against the Members of the All India Student Federation (AISF), the students wing of CPI have been on hunger strike in Delhi, and are in the forefront along with the protesting CJP from the beginning of the Jantar Mantar protests.