Disha, Chandigarh / दिशा, चण्डीगढ़ / ਦਿਸ਼ਾ, ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ

01/08/2026

In India under Modi, women are harassed for using swear words, while those abusing them, threatening them with r*pe, doxxing them, walk free!

In the days following the historic student-youth movement across the country, which shattered the arrogance of the fascist Modi Government, forcing it to give in to the demand of the Education MInister’s resignation, a malicious and vindictive campaign is being launched by the fascists, particularly against female protestors. Women protesters accused of "insulting" the Prime Minister have faced online harassment, including death and r*pe threats, doxxing, and the circulation of their personal information.

Several right-wing X handles shared photos and videos of women protesters, disclosing their personal details, urging their followers to "teach them a lesson." One woman protester was declared "most wanted" in viral posts that urged users to help locate her and share information about her whereabouts. Her details, including name and city, and a copy of a Zero FIR registered in Noida was circulated online after she was accused of "abusing" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This must not be reduced to an isolated X campaign, but understood as a manifestation of the anti-women ideology of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. We must not forget how male personnel of the Delhi Police and the RAF, working on behest of fascist Modi government, attacked the sensitive parts of women's bodies during the brutal crackdown on students and youth while they were peacefully marching towards Parliament. This is nothing but sexual harassment. Furthermore, recently, T.G. Mohandas, an RSS ideologue and former head of the BJP's intellectual cell in Kerala, directed highly explicit and offensive slurs at female demonstrators, claiming that "secular, leftist, and democratic women" who participate in protests "enjoy being gang-r*ped" and would not file complaints because they "like being r*ped." Kangana Renaut too jumped on the bandwagon to prove her loyalty, claiming that this is a “Gutter generation”, whose women are “ugly” and enjoy “drugs, drinking and body counts”. These misogynistic and patriarchal remarks by leaders of the BJP and the RSS, the actions of the police and security forces, and the relentless online harassment by Sanghi bots and troll accounts are the expected manifestations of an ideology whose foremost teacher, VD Savarkar, advocated for the use of r*pe as a political tool!

In the midst of all of this, the Prime Minister, following his newly acquired and much ridiculed habit of making reels, made a reel claiming to forgive the women who had insulted him, while completely avoiding the real questions: isn’t it the Prime Minister and his BJP government that are responsible for the brutal violence launched against students on the streets of this country? Isn’t he morally culpable for the grave injuries to children, women, elders alike? Is it not the state police forces and Sangh Parivar that must apologise for the blatant sexual harassment, misogyny and brutality against young women who were protesting for a better education system? Modi went further and invoked the dignity of his mother, while dodging the question of the dignity and safety of the thousands of young women who are being harassed by state forces and by the IT cell of his own party.

Disha Students' Organization strongly condemns this harassment of young women by fascist forces and the state machinery. It calls upon students and youth to recognise the deeply patriarchal and misogynistic character of the Sangh Parivar and to isolate it from every arena of society. Our society needs the revolutionary unity of students and youth, to struggle against the fascist attack on education, democracy, against women and students-youth. We must continue to oppose and expose these fascist organisations and individuals, who are unable to digest the fact that women have moved beyond the confines of the kitchen and are shattering the Führer-like ego of their perceived "supreme leader” and their treasured patriarchal values.

31/07/2026

महान साहित्यकार प्रेमचन्द के जन्मदिवस (31 जुलाई) के अवसर पर

*साम्प्रदायिकता और संस्कृति*

साम्प्रदायिकता सदैव संस्कृति की दुहाई दिया करती है। उसे अपने असली रूप में निकलने में शायद लज्जा आती है, इसलिए वह उस गधे की भाँति जो सिंह की खाल ओढ़कर जंगल में जानवरों पर रोब जमाता फिरता था, संस्कृति का खोल ओढ़कर आती है। हिन्दू अपनी संस्कृति को क़यामत तक सुरक्षित रखना चाहता है, मुसलमान अपनी संस्कृति को। दोनों ही अभी तक अपनी-अपनी संस्कृति को अछूती समझ रहे हैं, यह भूल गये हैं कि अब न कहीं हिन्दू संस्कृति है, न मुस्लिम संस्कृति और न कोई अन्य संस्कृति। अब संसार में केवल एक संस्कृति है, और वह है आर्थिक संस्कृति मगर आज भी हिन्दू और मुस्लिम संस्कृति का रोना रोये चले जाते हैं। हालाँकि संस्कृति का धर्म से कोई सम्बन्ध नहीं। आर्य संस्कृति है, ईरानी संस्कृति है, अरब संस्कृति है। हिन्दू मूर्तिपूजक हैं, तो क्या मुसलमान कब्र पूजक और स्थान पूजक नहीं है। ताज़िये को शर्बत और शीरीनी कौन चढ़ाता है, मस्जिद को ख़ुदा का घर कौन समझता है। अगर मुसलमानों में एक सम्प्रदाय ऐसा है, जो बड़े से बड़े पैगम्बरों के सामने सिर झुकाना भी कुफ़्र समझता है, तो हिन्दुओं में भी एक ऐसा है जो देवताओं को पत्थर के टुकड़े और नदियों को पानी की धारा और धर्मग्रन्थों को गपोड़े समझता है। यहाँ तो हमें दोनों संस्कृतियों में कोई अन्तर नहीं दिखता।

तो क्या भाषा का अन्तर है? बिल्कुल नहीं। मुसलमान उर्दू को अपनी मिल्ली भाषा कह लें, मगर मद्रासी मुसलमान के लिए उर्दू वैसी ही अपरिचित वस्तु है जैसे मद्रासी हिन्दू के लिए संस्कृत। हिन्दू या मुसलमान जिस प्रान्त में रहते हैं सर्वसाधारण की भाषा बोलते हैं चाहे वह उर्दू हो या हिन्दी, बांंग्ला हो या मराठी। बंगाली मुसलमान उसी तरह उर्दू नहीं बोल सकता और न समझ सकता है, जिस तरह बंगाली हिन्दू। दोनों एक ही भाषा बोलते हैं। सीमाप्रान्त का हिन्दू उसी तरह पश्तो बोलता है, जैसे वहाँ का मुसलमान।

फिर क्या पहनावे में अन्तर है? सीमाप्रान्त के हिन्दू और मुसलमान स्त्रियों की तरह कुरता और ओढ़नी पहनते-ओढ़ते हैं। हिन्दू पुरुष भी मुसलमानों की तरह कुलाह और पगड़ी बाँधता है। अक्सर दोनों ही दाढ़ी भी रखते हैं। बंगाल में जाइये, वहाँ हिन्दू और मुसलमान स्त्रियाँ दोनों ही साड़ी पहनती हैं, हिन्दू और मुसलमान पुरुष दोनों कुरता और धोती पहनते है तहमद की प्रथा बहुत हाल में चली है, जब से साम्प्रदायिकता ने ज़ोर पकड़ा है।

खान-पान को लीजिए। अगर मुसलमान मांस खाते हैं तो हिन्दू भी अस्सी फीसदी मांस खाते हैं। ऊँचे दरजे के हिन्दू भी शराब पीते हैं, ऊँचे दरजे के मुसलमान भी। नीचे दरजे के हिन्दू भी शराब पीते है नीचे दरजे के मुसलमान भी। मध्यवर्ग के हिन्दू या तो बहुत कम शराब पीते हैं, या भंग के गोले चढ़ाते हैं जिसका नेता हमारा पण्डा-पुजारी क्लास है। मध्यवर्ग के मुसलमान भी बहुत कम शराब पीते है, हाँ कुछ लोग अफीम की पीनक अवश्य लेते हैं, मगर इस पीनकबाज़ी में हिन्दू भाई मुसलमानों से पीछे नहीं है। हाँ, मुसलमान गाय की कुर्बानी करते हैं। और उनका मांस खाते हैं लेकिन हिन्दुओं में भी ऐसी जातियाँ मौजूद हैं, जो गाय का मांस खाती हैं यहाँ तक कि मृतक मांस भी नहीं छोड़तीं, हालाँकि बधिक और मृतक मांस में विशेष अन्तर नहीं है। संसार में हिन्दू ही एक जाति है, जो गो-मांस को अखाद्य या अपवित्र समझती है। तो क्या इसलिए हिन्दुओं को समस्त विश्व से धर्म-संग्राम छेड़ देना चाहिए?

संगीत और चित्रकला भी संस्कृति का एक अंग है, लेकिन यहाँ भी हम कोई सांस्कृतिक भेद नहीं पाते। वही राग-रागनियाँ दोनों गाते हैं और मुगलकाल की चित्रकला से भी हम परिचित हैं। नाट्य कला पहले मुसलमानों में न रही हो, लेकिन आज इस सींगे में भी हम मुसलमान को उसी तरह पाते हैं जैसे हिन्दुओं को।

फिर हमारी समझ में नहीं आता कि वह कौन सी संस्कृति है, जिसकी रक्षा के लिए साम्प्रदायिकता इतना ज़ोर बाँध रही है। वास्तव में संस्कृति की पुकार केवल ढोंग है, निरा पाखण्ड। शीतल छाया में बैठे विहार करते हैं। यह सीधे-सादे आदमियों को साम्प्रदायिकता की ओर घसीट लाने का केवल एक मन्त्र है और कुछ नहीं। हिन्दू और मुस्लिम संस्कृति के रक्षक वही महानुभाव और वही समुदाय हैं, जिनको अपने ऊपर, अपने देशवासियों के ऊपर और सत्य के ऊपर कोई भरोसा नहीं, इसलिए अनन्त तक एक ऐसी शक्ति की ज़रूरत समझते हैं जो उनके झगड़ों में सरपंच का काम करती रहे।

इन संस्थाओं को जनता को सुख-दुख से कोई मतलब नहीं, उनके पास ऐसा कोई सामाजिक या राजनीतिक कार्यक्रम नहीं है जिसे राष्ट्र के सामने रख सकें। उनका काम केवल एक-दूसरे का विरोध करके सरकार के सामने फ़रियाद करना है। वे ओहदों और रियायतों के लिए एक-दूसरे से चढ़ा-ऊपरी करके जनता पर शासन करने में शासक के सहायक बनने के सिवा और कुछ नहीं करते।

मुसलमान अगर शासकों का दामन पकड़कर कुछ रियायतें पा गया है तो हिन्दू क्यों न सरकार का दामन पकड़ें और क्यों न मुसलमानों की भाँति सुर्ख़रू बन जायें। यही उनकी मनोवृत्ति है। कोई ऐसा काम सोच निकालना जिससे हिन्दू और मुसलमान दोनों एक राष्ट्र का उद्धार कर सकें, उनकी विचार शक्ति से बाहर है। दोनों ही साम्प्रदायिक संस्थाएँ मध्यवर्ग के धनिकों, ज़मींदारों, ओहदेदारों और पदलोलुपों की हैं। उनका कार्यक्षेत्र अपने समुदाय के लिए ऐसे अवसर प्राप्त करना है, जिससे वह जनता पर शासन कर सकें, जनता पर आर्थिक और व्यावसायिक प्रभुत्व जमा सकें। साधारण जनता के सुख-दुख से उन्हें कोई प्रयोजन नहीं। अगर सरकार की किसी नीति से जनता को कुछ लाभ होने की आशा है और इन समुदायों को कुछ क्षति पहुँचने का भय है, तो वे तुरन्त उसका विरोध करने को तैयार हो जायेंगे। अगर और ज़्यादा गहराई तक जायें तो हमें इन संस्थाओं में अधिकांश ऐसे सज्जन मिलेंगे जिनका कोई न कोई निजी हित लगा हुआ है। और कुछ न सही तो हुक्काम के बंगलों पर उनकी रसोई ही सरल हो जाती है। एक विचित्र बात है कि इन सज्जनों की अफ़सरों की निगाह में बड़ी इज्जत है, इनकी वे बड़ी ख़ातिर करते हैं।

इसका कारण इसके सिवा और क्या है कि वे समझते हैं, ऐसों पर ही उनका प्रभुत्व टिका हुआ है। आपस में खूब लड़े जाओ, खूब एक-दूसरे को नुकसान पहुँचाये जाओ। उनके पास फ़रियाद लिये जाओ, फिर उन्हें किसका नाम है, वे अमर हैं। मजा यह है कि बाजों ने यह पाखण्ड फैलाना भी शुरू कर दिया है कि हिन्दू अपने बूते पर स्वराज प्राप्त कर सकते है। इतिहास से उसके उदाहरण भी दिये जाते हैं। इस तरह की ग़लतमहमियाँ फैला कर इसके सिवा कि मुसलमानों में और ज़्यादा बदगुमानी फैले और कोई नतीजा नहीं निकल सकता। अगर कोई ज़माना था, तो कोई ऐसा काल भी था, जब हिन्दूओं के ज़माने में मुसलमानों ने अपना साम्राज्य स्थापित किया था, उन ज़मानों को भूल जाइये। वह मुबारक दिन होगा, जब हमारे शालाओं में इतिहास उठा दिया जायेगा। यह ज़माना साम्प्रदायिक अभ्युदय का नहीं है। यह आर्थिक युग है और आज वही नीति सफल होगी जिससे जनता अपनी आर्थिक समस्याओं को हल कर सके जिससे यह अन्धविश्वास, यह धर्म के नाम पर किया गया पाखण्ड, यह नीति के नाम पर ग़रीबों को दुहने की कृपा मिटाई जा सके। जनता को आज संस्कृतियों की रक्षा करने का न अवकाश है न ज़रूरत। ‘संस्कृति’ अमीरों, पेटभरों का बेफ़िक्रों का व्यसन है। दरिद्रों के लिए प्राण रक्षा ही सबसे बड़ी समस्या है।

उस संस्कृति में था ही क्या, जिसकी वे रक्षा करें। जब जनता मूर्छित थी तब उस पर धर्म और संस्कृति का मोह छाया हुआ था। ज्यों-ज्यों उसकी चेतना जागृत होती जाती है वह देखने लगी है कि यह संस्कृति केवल लुटेरों की संस्कृति थी जो, राजा बनकर, विद्वान बनकर, जगत सेठ बनकर जनता को लूटती थी। उसे आज अपने जीवन की रक्षा की ज़्यादा चिन्ता है, जो संस्कृति की रक्षा से कहीं आवश्यक है। उस पुरान संस्कृति में उसके लिए मोह का कोई कारण नहीं है। और साम्प्रदायिकता उसकी आर्थिक समस्याओं की तरफ से आँखें बन्द किये हुए ऐसे कार्यक्रम पर चल रही है, जिससे उसकी पराधीनता चिरस्थायी बनी रहेगी।

— प्रेमचन्द

29/07/2026

Oppose All Sorts of ‘Show-biz’ Politics and Lime-Light Politics of Optics and Credit-Mongering

TIME TO TAKE THE MOVEMENT FORWARD!

We, from Disha Students Organization, had been cautioning the thousands of students-youth gathered at Jantar-Mantar and the hundreds of thousands of students-youth participating in the present movement in the entire country that we must not vacate Jantar-Mantar and the protest sites in all other cities, merely on the basis of the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhaan before the following fundamental demands are met, we must not vacate Jantar-Mantar and the protest sites in all other cities, merely on the basis of the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhaan: withdrawal of all FIRs and cases against all protesters unconditionally, release of all detained/arrested protesters unconditionally, and at least formation of a high-level enquiry on the conduct of Delhi Police in Delhi and other state police departments which resorted to most inhumane and brutal forms of repression including firing live rounds, pellet guns, use of shock batons, nailed lathis, etc. and molestation and sexual harassment of women students.
These were the minimum non-negotiable demands for most of the students who were protesting. However, without any democratic General Body Meeting at the Jantar-Mantar, without any referendum among the protesting students, our friends in the CJP delegation asked the students to withdraw the agitation “with immediate effect” during the joint press conference with cabinet minister Mr. J. P. Nadda and another minister on 25th July, merely on the basis of verbal assurances about police cases, arrests and detentions and police brutality.

We, from Disha, sincerely believe that it was a mistake, regarding which we had been cautioning with a written pamphlet that the Modi government and other NDA and BJP state governments will immediately plunge themselves into vengeful repression against the students and activists and we must not de-occupy our protest sites without the aforementioned four demands are met in practice. This is precisely what is happening right now (the pamphlet distributed by Disha is attached in our bio).

We, from Disha, also cautioned students-youth (and most of them agreed) that we must not be too fixated on one singular demand of resignation of Dharmendra Pradhaan as it will dilute the very idea of structural reforms in the education and exam system. Our demand was not this: “let us be cheated by someone else than Dharmendra Pradhaan”! Now that Pradhaan has resigned, what did we get in return? Prahlad Joshi, a vocal supporter of rapists and murderers of the Bilkis Bano case and a well-known stooge of the RSS. What kind of education system will he provide?

What else did we get besides the ridiculous theatrics of PM Modi? A high-powered committee for exam reforms led by neo-con technocrat Nandan Nilekani! Who are the other members? They include Tapan Deka (ex-IB director)! What the hell is he doing there? V. Kamakoti, director of IIT Madras who claimed cow-urine has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal qualities, can be used to cure high fever and that he himself regularly consumes a mix containing cow-urine and cow-dung (panchgavya)! Does our country lack rational and scientific pedagogues and educational specialists? IS THIS WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR AND LITERALLY SPILLED OUR BLOOD FOR?

On the other hand, disgraced Pradhaan, responsible for the institutional murder of nearly two dozen students due to paper leaks, is felicitated, garlanded and welcomed with slogans by the BJP MPs in the Parliament!
It is very clear now that 25th July should not have been the day of ending our struggle and occupation of protest sites in a jiffy and this unilateral decision by the friends of CJP was entirely undesirable and wrong. Moreover, this, too, became very clear that two basic demands needed to be fulfilled for any beginning of structural reforms in education and exam system were these: dissolution of NTA and revocation of the NEP-2020. These, too, should have been non-negotiables, but everything was reduced to Pradhaan’s resignation! From Disha, we raised these questions again and again through pamphlets (this pamphlet, too, is attached in our bio). Before the mass of students and youth gathered at all the protest sites could comprehend, internalize and adopt these demands as their own, the protest was prematurely called off by friends of CJP in a unilateral fashion.

Now, our friend from CJP, Saurav Das is releasing a statement saying that the “youth of the country decided to withdraw the agitation” based on good faith and now the BJP government is destroying that mutual trust! Sorry, Saurav, that is not true at all! The protesting youth and students of the country did not decide to call off the agitation immediately on the basis of verbal assurances of a government which nobody trusts and which has not fulfilled a single promise or assurance in the last 12 years! They were not even consulted about this decision. It was the CJP delegation which withdrew the agitation with “immediate effect” to borrow from Mr. Nadda! The leadership of CJP should have held a GBM of all protestors gathered in order to organize a referendum on these questions and whether we can trust the BJP government on their oral assurances, especially in the light of your own observations after your first meeting with J. P. Nadda that “he is a fraud” and this government cannot be trusted! We do not question your intent or honesty right now, but certainly this decision was undemocratic and naïve and amounted to playing into the hands of Nadda and BJP government. So kindly take this as a criticism that co-travelers make about each other.

Since the last 3 days, imprisoned students and activists are awaiting the promises to be fulfilled. Their relatives, friends and other justice-loving people are full of anger due to this serious breach of trust. To the anger and irritation of millions of students, not only the CJP, but some other organizations, too, are issuing celebratory statements repeatedly, one after another, that they have won “one more victory”, as the Bihar government, Assam government have promised to take back all FIRs and release all protesters, after their threat of resuming the struggle! However, this, too, is premature celebration and optics because Bihar government has put a condition: all protesters arrested before 6 PM of 26th July will be released and all FIRs registered before that deadline will be withdrawn!

Now, every student of Bihar knows that it is a trap because on most of the students detained before that deadline, FIRs were slapped later. SO, the Bihar Police will show that most of the detained and arrested protesters were arrested after this deadline! And that is what Bihar Police is doing! We are getting reports that the list of to-be-released protesters has only 27 names! Why did you accept this condition? Why any such deadline? You should have objected to this condition right away instead of prematurely proclaiming “another victory”. Our demand should have been UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ALL PROTESTERS AND UNCONDITIONAL WITHDRAWAL OF ALL FIRs! Including against those who have previous criminal cases, because all of us know that every student activist has been framed in this or that false case by the police in every state and in Delhi. They are not CONVICTS! If previous criminal cases are to be ground of non-withdrawal of cases and refusal to release, then shouldn’t 70 percent of the MPs and MLAs be barred from even fighting elections and be behind bars? Clearly enough, the Supreme Court, too, is giving an opportunity to the BJP government to continue to harass the protesting students-youth. On the top of that, BJP state governments are adding their own conditions to the release of students-youth and the withdrawal of FIRs.

But CJP’s several celebratory statements about “one more victory” on such fraudulent proclamations of the BJP’s state governments is to capitulate on this central demand of unconditional withdrawal of all FIRs and unconditional release of all students and youth arrested or detained during our protests everywhere, and amounts to play into the hands of the government. Our appeal to friends of CJP is simply this: Please do not do this if you do not want to lose the trust of student and youth masses.

Some other organizations and student leaders, too, have made fraudulent claims that after their visits to some state/states or their threats to resume agitation, these state governments suddenly froze out of fear and declared that all students will be released and all FIRs will be withdrawn! No such thing has happened and any such claim holds no water. The truth is this: none of these demands have been fulfilled till now.

Such political practice is an example of show-biz politics, lime-light politics, optics politics and false credit-mongering in the hope of converting it into votes ultimately. That is the conditio sine qua non of this politics. We appeal to such student leaders and organizations, not to indulge in such politics. It creates illusion among student and youth masses, makes them lose their revolutionary vigilance. It will harm the entire movement that is ongoing and which has great potential of resumption on even more radical political lines and on an even larger scale.
We call upon all students and youth to be prepared to resume our struggle because the BJP government is stabbing us in the back by going back on the assurances given on 25th July. If we do not continue to fight, the BJP government at the centre and those in the states will organize a witch-hunting against protesting students and youth even in the future so that we can be “taught a lesson” and never dare to raise our voice against injustice. We must be prepared to re-occupy our protest sites again to resume our peaceful struggle. It is our democratic right. It is our constitutional right. And nobody can take this right away from us.

29/07/2026

28/07/2026

पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी, चण्डीगढ़ में करण्ट लगने से हुई छात्रा की मौत के लिए प्रशासनिक लापरवाही ज़िम्मेदार है!

पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी कैम्पस में बुनियादी इन्फ़्रास्ट्रक्चर को बेहतर करो!!

साथियो, पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी, चण्डीगढ़ में माइक्रोबयोलॉजी में पीएचडी कर रही एक छात्रा - ज्योति की आज सुबह बिजली का झटका लगने से दुखद मृत्यु हो गयी। यह घटना तब हुई जब उक्त शोधार्थी सुबह हॉस्टल से विभाग की ओर जाने वाली कच्ची सड़क से जा रही थी। मौक़े पर मौजूद लोगों ने छात्रा की मदद की भी कोशिश की लेकिन उसने अस्पताल पहुँचने से पहले ही दम तोड़ दिया। अभी तक इसकी कोई पुख़्ता जानकारी नहीं है कि बिजली के झटके का स्रोत क्या था, लेकिन यह तय है कि इसके लिए प्रशासनिक लापरवाही ज़िम्मेदार है।

यह हालत तब है जब 2026-27 के लिए तय किये गये बजट में यूनिवर्सिटी प्रशासन ने इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर के नाम पर 11.69 करोड़ और विद्युत तंत्र अपग्रेड करने के लिए 5.50 करोड़ रुपये आबण्टित किये थे। इस मामले से पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी की ज़मीनी हक़ीक़त उजागर होती है।

दिशा छात्र संगठन ज्योति की असामयिक मृत्यु पर दुख व्यक्त करता और इसके लिए प्रशासन को जिम्मेदार मानता है। इस मामले के बाद छात्रों ने वीसी कार्यालय का घेराव किया जिसके बाद वीसी को बाहर आ कर छात्रों को आश्वासन देना पड़ा।

हम माँग करते हैं कि :

1. इस मामले की पूर्ण जाँच हो और इसके लिए ज़िम्मेदार अधिकारियों को बर्ख़ास्त किया जाये।
2. यूनिवर्सिटी कैम्पस में विद्युत, सड़क समेत तमाम इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर को तुरन्त प्रभाव से दुरुस्त किया जाये।
3. कैम्पस में बिजली के खम्बों, स्ट्रीट लाइट इत्यादि की जाँच पड़ताल नियमित तौर पर की जाये।
4. छात्रा के परिजनों को उचित मुआवज़ा मुहैया कराया जाये।

Administrative Negligence is responsible for the death of a student due to electrocution at Panjab University, Chandigarh!

Improve basic infrastructure across the Panjab University campus!!

Comrades, a tragic incident took place this morning at Panjab University, Chandigarh, where Jyoti, a PhD scholar in the Department of Microbiology, lost her life after suffering an electric shock. The incident occurred while she was walking from her hostel to her department along an unpaved road. People present at the spot immediately tried to help her, but she succumbed to her injuries before she could be taken to the hospital. While the exact source of the electric current has not yet been conclusively identified, one thing is beyond doubt: this tragedy is the result of administrative negligence.

This comes despite the fact that the University administration had allocated ₹11.69 crore for infrastructure development and another ₹5.50 crore for upgrading the electrical system in its 2026–27 budget. The incident lays bare the grim reality of Panjab University's infrastructure on the ground.

Disha Students' Organisation expresses its deepest grief over Jyoti's untimely death and holds the University administration accountable for this preventable tragedy. Following the incident, students demonstrated outside the Vice-Chancellor's office, forcing the Vice-Chancellor to come out and assure the protesting students that action would be taken.

We demand:

1. A thorough and impartial inquiry into the incident, and the immediate dismissal of the officials found responsible.
2. Immediate repair and upgradation of the University's electrical system, roads, and all other essential infrastructure across the campus.
3. Regular inspection and maintenance of electric poles, street lights, and all other electrical installations on campus.
4. Adequate compensation for the bereaved family of the deceased student.

24/07/2026

The protest against paper leaks and the privatization and commercialization of education continues today at Sector 17 Plaza, Chandigarh. Students and youth once again gathered to raise their voices against the BJP government's continued failure to ensure a fair and accountable examination system. Despite the persistence of the movement, those in power remain unwilling to address the root causes of paper leaks and the deepening privatization of education.

This protest must be seen as a part of the broader nationwide movement against paper leaks and the commercialization of education. Alongside the continuing sit-in at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, students and youth are organizing protests and campaigns in different parts of the country, reflecting the growing anger against policies that have pushed the education system deeper into crisis.

The struggle must continue beyond protest sites and reach educational institutions, working-class localities, and residential areas through sustained campaigns. Only a broad, organized, and militant student-youth movement can challenge the policies that have commercialized education and undermined the future of millions.

23/07/2026

23rd July • The protest demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan and scrapping NTA continued at sector 17 plaza Chandigarh today on 23rd July as well. People from all over the chandigarh gathered to show solidarity with the students facing repression at Jantar Mantar.

Disha students' organisation participated in the protest emphasising on the demand to scrap NTA and roll back of NEP.

Join us tomorrow at the same time!

22/07/2026

22 July • A joint protest against the brutality that was unleashed by the delhi police and paramilitary forces on the students who were marching to the Parliament on 20th July was organised by various organisations in Chandigarh at sector 17 Plaza today.

Students who have been protesting against and demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan along with scrapping NTA at Jantar Mantar, Delhi since over a month now, had given a call for a peaceful march to the Sansad Bhavan. Instead of accepting the demands and having a dialogue with the students, the fascist government decided to resort to their usual tactics of terrorising the students to break their will. Students were brutally lathi charged, beaten mercilessly, were attacked by personnels without any name plate and even without uniform, were dragged and made to face the tear gas.

Hundreds of students were hospitalised, thousands were injured with various severity levels. The whole event exposed the anti student character of the government and their military forces.

In solidarity with the students of Delhi and in support of their rightful demands, along with Disha Students' Organization various student organizations including PSU lalkaar, Naujawan Bharat Sabha, SFS, AISA, Panjabnama, AFDR, SAAKHI, SOPU and Pol Sci Students(PU) came together against an ailing and unaccountable education system that has affected the lives of crores of students and has taken the lives of many.

Slogans against the ruling govt, its ministers and the incompetent institutions that are continuously failing were raised by hundreds of students and justice loving citizens who had joined the protest. It was jointly decided to have regular sit-ins from today onwards and to ultimately turn it into an indefinite protest.

20/07/2026

Students of Panjab University gathered today at the Student centre to oppose the entry of speakers from RSS invited by the university authorities and the police repression that the organisations faced while opposing the "guests" in the morning.

As the call from the CJP protest being held at delhi was given to the students of Panjab University, the two protests were merged together.

Speakers from various organisations spoke on the issues from the event organised in the university to CJP protest at Delhi to Ken Betwa project in Madhya Pradesh and everything else in general.

Disha too spoke on the tendencies of fascism in india and the character of CJP and the struggle ahead.

Later a march from the student center to the university market was taken out while continuously raising the revolutionary slogans.