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Three pupil outfits connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) held a property league demanding the revocation of the month-long prohibition connected demonstrations imposed by Delhi University earlier this week.
On Tuesday (February 17, 2026), DU Proctor Manoj Kumar Singh issued an bid imposing a prohibition connected protests, nationalist meetings, processions, and demonstrations connected the assemblage campuses. The bid came 4 days aft clashes were reported astatine an lawsuit held by the All India Students’ Association (AISA) successful enactment of the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) equity rules.
‘Undemocratic order’
Earlier successful the day, members from the 3 Left-aligned organisations — All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) and All India Students’ Federation (AISF) — gathered astatine the Arts Faculty gate, wherever the clashes were reported connected February 13, denouncing the “undemocratic” ban. The students said DU’s information unit stopped them and tore up their posters. Following this, the students briefed the media astir 100 metres from the Arts Faculty building.
“We see the bid not lone undemocratic but besides a nonstop onslaught connected the precise essence of education. It aims to smother each forms of debate, treatment and steadfast dialog successful the campus,” said AIDSO’s DU in-charge Adrika. If the bid is not revoked, she added that “students shall expedite the question to reclaim their rightful antiauthoritarian field space”.
The pupil leaders said the crushed cited by the Proctor for the prohibition — “maintaining bid and tranquillity connected campus” — was vague.
A time earlier, the DU Teachers’ Association appealed to the medication to revisit its order, stating that specified a prohibition had ne'er been imposed successful the university’s history. It appealed for societal and taste events to beryllium exempted from the order.
