Namchi college students condemn police action, express hope that one-man committee will deliver justice

NAMCHI, 17 July: Namchi Government College students and student representatives of South District have condemned the police action against college students in Gangtok on 14 and 15 July and demanded the strict and immediate action from the state government of Sikkim and said that “ issue had not been settled yet, student will wait for 15 days for the investigation of the incident and if the justice will not come they will continue their agitation and for this time students of four district will join in this agitation seeking for the justice”.
They have demanded strict action against the SP East and the Sadar Thana PI for the lathicharge of 14 July and have also demanded there be no bias in the investigation into the incident and that all the police and IRBn personnel involved in the incident be punished accordingly.
The students also expressed dissatisfaction with HRD Department’s style of functioning, and remarked that if the fee hike had been announced more in advance, a solution would also have been worked out earlier and things would not have come to such a pass.
The students were forced to protest the fee hike and the lathicharge was hence wrong, the students said. The State Government should also have intervened immediately into the matter instead of allowing it to become critical.
Meanwhile, the students of Namchi Government College had also placed their representation letter regarding the Tadong incident to DC [South] which had been forwarded to the Principal Secretary.
The students also appealed to all political parties to stay away from the issue and not politicize it since all that the students want was justice from the concerned authority against a wrong. The students also thanked the State government for bring back the earlier nominal college fees and setting up a one-man committee to enquire into the incident and expressed faith that the committee will deliver justice.
The students also called on the HRD Department to improve its system so that such manageable issues are not allowed to snowball into such vexed situations. They also informed that the Namchi Government college is facing huge problems in the admission procedure for this session and demanded that the department come up with immediate solutions for this problem also.