India: bsCEM on the repression conducted in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus
We hereby share a statement that we have received from the Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM)
On 4th February, student activists Gauraang, Rahul, Gaurav and Kiran of Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) conducted a wall painting program in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus opposing the reactionary war on people, and showing solidarity with the people’s democratic & revolutionary movements of the country.
They carried out the wall paintings against the old Indian state’s genocidal Operation Kagar, which has murdered more than 350 people since its launch on 1 January 2024, as well as emphasizing that the New Democratic revolutionary movement of India, led by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is bound to continue, intensify, and triumph in the face of worsening crisis, intensifying counterrevolutionary terror, and oppression-exploitation.
At around 3 AM in the morning, while the activists were doing the wall paintings, they were detained by the university guards, then abducted by the police who came with at least 6-7 cars. After this, the police, especially their sub-inspector Vinay Bharadwaj, used brutal force on the comrades, kidnapping them to Vasant Kunj north police station, where they were illegally investigated by the NIA which is the Indian gestapo. During the 15 hours of torture, the reactionary forces used extraordinary brutality. Gauraang was beaten for more than 30 minutes under the guise of interrogation to the point that his ears started to bleed. But when progressives and revolutionaries all around the country showed solidarity and there was widespread opposition to the abduction, the activists were released on the same day.
The decadent Indian state, in its desperate attempt to survive the severe and deepening crisis that imperialism is experiencing, is continuing to wage its reactionary war on Dandakaranya’s masses in the name of Operation Kagar. As part of the Surajkund Scheme, the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist Indian state is thus imposing repression on every progressive and democratic movement in society. Be it Punjab-Haryana border where the state forces utilized drones to drop tear gas bombs on protesting farmers, or the jungles of Bastar where the paramilitary and police forces of the state commit massacre after massacre, already having murdered more than 47 people since the beginning of this year, or the universities where anything resembling democratic space in protest to these atrocities is being attacked viciously — state repression is increasing all around the country.
Despite this increasing trend of repression, however, the revolutionary struggle for a new democratic India—an India freed from the yoke of imperialism, feudalism and comprador bureaucratic capitalism—is developing in active opposition to the very old state which attempts to quell them. Until this dream is realized, and further until the entire world is liberated from the yoke of capital & all reaction, the struggle is bound to continue.
