the Central Reference Library and for about one and half hours there were
anti war songs sung by various student teams. The gathering of the
demonstration was addressed by prominent democratic teachers are Prof.Sumit
Sarkar, Prof. Manorajan Mohanty. Dr.Badri Rain and Sunil, a student leader
(DSU) read poems against the US War.
The speakers expressed solidarity to the people of Iraq who are boldly
putting up resistance to the American invaders on their sovereignty. All
condemned the US aggressive imperialist war on Iraq and told the audience to
intensify the anti-war movement in India.
A numbers of teachers like Prof. Ali Javed., Tripta Vahi, Vijender Sharma,
Nandita Narain, Tapas Ranjan Saha and a number of others who have been in
the elected teachers body now or earlier.
The rally went around the campuses through various colleges and the
demonstration ended back at the arts faculty by taking a decision to take
many more protests by contacting other University campuses in Delhi.
Members of Democratic Students Union (DSU) burnt the US flag as the rally
started off. Many Student organisations like AISA, PSU, AIDSO etc.,
participated with anti America slogans songs and posters and placards.
Organisations like Forum for Democracy, All India Peoples Resistance Forum
also participated in the rally.
The demonstration commended the admirable resistance with which the people
of Iraq are fighting the American imperialist Aggression.
In a meeting on 21st March, Delhi University teachers, students and
non-teaching staff decided to launch the UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AGAINST THE
WAR ON IRAQ. This has been conceived as a collective effort of the
University community of the various campuses of Delhi.
Contact Persons:
Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty
Prof. Sumit Sarkar
Prof. Achin Vanaik
Prof. Javed Malik
Prof. Vijay Singh
Prof. Alok Rai
Dr. Nandita Narain
Dr. Kumar Sanjay Singh
Sunil Madiwal, Democratic Students Union (DSU)
Pradeep, Progressive Students Union (PSU)
Uma Gupta, AISA
Satyendra Misra, SFI
Amar Singh Amar (Non-teaching Staff)
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