Nirmala Sitharaman

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Students from all over India came out to protest after The Attack

protesting students from all over India against an attack on a prestigious Delhi University by Masked Men , armed with sticks on Sunday.

at least 40 students and staff of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were hospitalized with injuries.

Videos of the violence spread quickly via WhatsApp and then sparking shock and outrage were broadcast On Television .

protests take place in the cities of Chandigarh, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad, as well as the capital city of Delhi.

The JNU has long been associated with leftist activism, and Some of The Students have connected the accused on Sunday, the violence of the radical right-wing student body in India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This group denies involvement and says the left-wing activists were responsible.

Police said they have found Some of the attacker. However, many of the protesters accused The Police , too slow to react to The Attack .

Some of The Students accused of The Attack on a right-wing student body, associated with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

violence has been on the line, including the Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister for foreign Affairs, S Jaishankar.

What happened on Sunday?

at about 19:00 local time (13:30 GMT), a group of Masked Men and at least one woman began attacking students at the JNU. Eye witnesses say that the attackers were armed.

"these were large stones, which could be, our skull have broken," Prof Atul Sood told India's NDTV channel. "I fell on the page and as I stood up, I saw cars completely destroyed. "

pictures show the shop Windows and damaged rooms in JNU is Sabarmati hostel

A video showed The Student union president is bleeding from a head wound.

Prof Sood said about 50 teachers and 200 students, which began against hike in hostel fees, implementation of an Assembly on the campus when The Attack .

Some criticized the response of Police and rescue service. Economics lecturer Amit Thorat told the news Agency Reuters, it took me to come for an hour of his First Call for all of us.

The news Agency also said that nearly a dozen eye-witnesses, which is not observed, the allegedly cause of The Police , but.

What do we know about The Attack ?

Exactly who is behind The Attack , and why it is conducted, is still unclear.

The Students in the Assembly, as a Protest against an increase in the hostel fee for the last months, the debt of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student body in the context of the BJP party.

The Police says, and he said that he had. secured the campus, and officials to deter further violence

But ABVP leader, Durgesh Kumar , that their members were The Victims , and Some of them were injured

"These criminals are off the sticks roaming around the campus fearless with percussion and weapons and the wearing of masks", in Hindi, he told the BBC. "They beat The Students of the ABVP, [and] to act innocent".

The University made The Attack on a "group of students" relative to a recording process for the registration of new students. It is widely accepted that The Statement in the left students who Protest against the fee hike.

about The Rise in hostel fees.

What The Students do and say?

It didn't take long, to mobilize students and activists across the country. On Monday, about 1,000 people gathered in Mumbai, with demonstrations in Hyderabad, Chennai (formerly Madras), Ahmedabad, Among Others .

Mallige Sirimane, a protester in the southern city of Bangalore, told the BBC: "JNU has been the inspiration for many of the struggles throughout the country. This is not only because it is The Spirit of the struggle, it has, although its students have an exemplary University, but also because, in comparison to many of the cruel. "

At the Panjab University in the North of the city of Chandigarh, The Students accused The Authorities of not acting quickly Enough .

protesters also gathered on the JNU campus itself

"JNU protests against hostel fee hike for months has now seen," Kanupriya, a protester in Chandigarh, told the BBC. "These protesters were arrested, many times, and even jail. But now The Police are silent about this incident still shows us who is responsible. "

Sunday, the incident comes at a time of heightened tensions. In the last few weeks, protests were held in several universities and cities on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Some believe that the two Issues - hostel, are connected in the protest and the CAA with each other.

"It is obviously in connection with the CAA," a protester told the BBC. "If all these educated people come out against the government, you want to kill the Voices . "

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Source of news: bbc.com