KSU oppose BSF camp in NEHU campus

SHILLONG, JUNE 3: NEHU students’ community is irked over the BSF camp within the university campus that housed over 800 BSF personnel.

KSU-NEHU unit met NEHU pro-vice chancellor on Wednesday demanding immediate withdrawal of permissions granted to the BSF and other armed forces from camping inside the university’s campus.

“We demanded immediate withdrawal of the permission to the armed forces to use the campus as a ‘shelter’ or a camp or a base permanently or temporarily,” KSU-NEHU president Samuel Kharshandi told newsmen after the meeting.

According to him, the frequent presence of BSF personnel around 800 of them at convocation ground/hall of the campus will affect the image of this reputed university.

“We opposed to the permission granted by the university administration, as the campus is gradually transforming into a para-military base,” Kharshandi said adding “NEHU is a university and it doesn’t require any help from such forces.”

The opposition to the camp came after students community expressed their reservation against the off and on presence of military forces in the campus.

“Their presence has also created a lot of inconveniences and insecurity to the movement of the students inside the campus because of their indiscipline attitude,” he said.

Stating that BSF’s presence in the campus runs contradictory to the purpose of the force, KSU president said, “While our borders are bleeding from illegal entry of criminal minded Bangladeshis who are bent on creating havoc in those areas, it is an irony that the force is stationed in the university campus.”

The student leader said such forces should be stationed at places where they are supposed to be deployed like the international and inter-state border but not in the university.

He added, “It is also not wrong to be skeptical about the probability of the BSF’s gradual, incremental but forceful and illegal grapping of the University land based on the glaring examples of land grabbing by military establishments in different parts of the state since 1947.”- By Our Reporter