Under the leadership of the MP Student Union, over 100,000 nursing students in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur are holding a massive rally against the declaration of the session 2023-24 as a “zero year”. They are demanding the organization of nursing exams and the provision of scholarships. Further, they have vowed not to vote for BJP in the elections if demands are not met.
The nursing students haven’t had their examinations for the past three years, and now they are raising their voices against this. This uproar among students can in turn dent the BJP’s prospects in upcoming assembly elections.
The failure to conduct exams for a long time has created a crisis for the students and they fear that they will lose one year due to the declaration of “zero year” for this session. Thus, the students are collectively registering a strong opposition by encircling the collectorate office in Jabalpur in the form of a rally. However, the students were stopped by the police at the Clock Tower square.
The nursing students say that when they started their nursing studies they had dreamt of a better future but now when the exams are not being conducted, not only their time is being wasted but also their lakhs of rupees. In this situation, they neither can quit their nursing studies nor can they seek a new future. The future of lakhs of students in the state is at stake, but the government is ignorant of this.
In December last year also there was a protest by students who first kept their protest peaceful, but when the authorities of the university paid no heed to their demands, the students barged into the university and created a lot of ruckus. They demanded the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor by protesting fiercely on the university premises and resorted to heavy sloganeering.
