Struggle season two

#Struggle Season Two

If this is Kerala University’s “Struggle Season 2”, then the government’s response is the “Silence Season Finale”. When the SFI student organization vandalized the Kerala University Registrar’s Office, the Chief Minister, who is handling the Home Department, was in a state of meditation. The state of the Kerala Police, which is waiting without confronting the protesters until the Governor opens his eyes, is pathetic

One police for Pinarayi, who is handling the Home Department, and another police for the Kerala Governor. Is this a constitutional experiment or is it the title of the handbook in the new curriculum “Two Powers, One Law”?. It would be very appropriate if the brochure of Kerala University, which the government calls the hub of higher education, included pictures of barricades, water cannons and lathis to attract foreign students. 

Where is the Higher Education Minister, who regularly arrives with the Bharatanatyam symbol and a punch thrown in the air when SFI riots start? Is she also in a state of meditation like the Chief Minister?  The minister's indifference during the protests has become an academic experiment. Whose head came up with the theory that if the protests are ignored, they will end on their own?

The government's indifference when a few students caught up in political exuberance hold the university hostage raises the question of whether there is a government here. If the government's policy is to watch everything and not stop any violence, it would be better to put up a sign that Kerala University is not a center of learning, but a permanent center of protest.

-K. A. Solaman