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The protesting students marched across the campus, addressing students at canteens and other public places. The march culminated at Vivekananda Statue, where women activists addressed a mass meeting.
Pooja, a student of Russian language and vice president of AISA’s DU unit, said, “These saffron forces are enemies of freedom of expression and women’s rights; ABVP recently attacked a teacher at a seminar in Delhi University. Our protest is a warning to them.”
A student of MA (History) Neethu Samuel said, “Today they say women can’t go to a pub. Tomorrow, they may say women wearing certain clothes or even going to school or college is against Indian culture. Women cannot surrender their freedom by allowing these saffron brigades to decide what is moral.”
The protesters also decried Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s remarks that he would not let pub culture grow. “When women in pubs are attacked, Yediyurappa says he will ban pubs; when women in colleges and schools are attacked, will he ban women’s education?” Kavita Krishnan, national secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association, said.
She also condemned Congress chief ministers Ashok Gehlot and Y S R Reddy for “tacitly supporting” the Sangh agenda by giving statements against ‘pub culture’ rather than defending women’s freedom and equality.
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If women going to the pubs is not in our culture, then is violence and molestation against them a part of our culture? In that case if we have to make a choice between the pubbing and violence we will choose pubbing. And its high time now that all these old and narrow minded politicians who still live in the 17th centaury be replaced with young blood who can take the country and its women in to a more respectable position