Monitoring Indian Communists - 2

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...294842.cms

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> NEW DELHI: A noisy protest by Left students against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on Monday sparked fierce clashes among rival groups and with police, leaving several people shaken and injured.

The trouble erupted as soon as Manmohan Singh reached an open-air theatre in the JNU campus to inaugurate a statue of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with members of the All India Students Association (AISA) shouting slogans against the government's economic and defence policies.

The AISA, which controls the presidency of the JNU Students Union, is affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML).

Slogans of "Manmohan Singh, Hai! Hai!" and "Manmohan Singh, go back!" rent the air. Some students waved black flags while a few others took off their black shirts and began to wave them furiously.

As policemen tried to control the situation, the sloganeering became more vocal, resulting first in fisticuffs with the police and then in violent clashes.

As the policemen began thrashing some of the protestors, activists of the Congress-affiliated National Students Union of India (NSUI) also began attacking the AISA members. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->  The prime minister also said he enjoyed coming to the university, saying it was a nurturing ground for intellectuals... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Ok and this..

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Four students were taken into police custody. After the prime minister left, <b>men and women</b> supporters of AISA and NSUI clashed again, hitting one another, necessitating further police intervention. Some students were seen bleeding from their noses. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> "Throw the Naxalites out of JNU!"  <!--emo&:guitar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guitar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='guitar.gif' /><!--endemo-->  shouted some of the NSUI members, referring to AISA. AISA had been planning the protests for days.

The Students Federation of India (SFI), which is affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist and has a strong presence among JNU students, also joined the demonstration. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->