viernes, 28 de noviembre de 2025
INDIA: Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement strongly condemns and protests the sexual harassment, assault, and arrests carried out by the Delhi Police against students
25th November, 2025
Revolutionary
Student-Youth Movement strongly condemns and protests the sexual
harassment, assault, and arrests carried out by the Delhi Police against
students of Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM), Nazariya Magazine,
and other organisations during the environmental protest at Delhi’s
India Gate!
For a long
time, India’s capital, Delhi, has topped the Air Quality Index as the
city with the most polluted air in the world. On 23 November 2025, the
Delhi Coordination Committee for Clean Air organised a protest rally.
The committee included Delhi-based Marxist-Leninist-Maoist student
organisation Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) and Nazariya
Magazine, among others. At the rally, the protesters rejected
“garden-style” environmentalism. They pointed instead to the
responsibility of the Hindutva fascist BJP, whose Chief Minister Rekha
Gupta is an agent of imperialism, and to the so-called “development”
projects of the corporate bureaucrat-bourgeoisie. They demanded the
formation of people’s committees composed of slum workers, migrant
labourers, residents of surrounding villages, and civil society rights
activists to take the leading role in planning Delhi’s development for
the protection of its environment.
At
this protest, the Delhi Police, loyal to the Hindutva fascists,
launched multiple attacks. Twenty-three protesters gathered near the
India Gate tourist site were arrested, including eleven women. The Delhi
Police filed two FIRs against these protesters. Under the first FIR,
the court sent five protesters to two days of judicial custody, and a
sixth person was placed in a safe house until age verification. Under
the second FIR, seventeen students were arrested and sent to three days
of judicial custody.
Furthermore,
on 18 November, the Indian state killed Comrade Madhavi Hidma, a
Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and a
commander of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), under the
false claim of an encounter. One of the key slogans of her party, her
forces, and the people’s government was the struggle to defend "Jal,
Jungle, Zameen" (water, forest, land). Many of the Delhi students
brought her photograph to the protest as an example of someone who
played a pioneering role in the struggle to protect the environment and
life of India’s people. The Delhi Police brutally attacked those who
carried Hidma’s image. This makes it clear that the Hindutva fascist
Indian state began its assault because Hidma, as a symbol of the
struggle, represented an obstacle to their ongoing destruction of nature
and life itself.
We, the
Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement, strongly condemn the brutal
attacks and arrests by the Indian state and the Delhi Police, and we
demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees. We also
demand a transparent, independent, and time-bound investigation into
the allegations of torture in police custody, including sexual
harassment and physical assault.
Signed by—
Azad
Member
National Committee
Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement