New Delhi: Students of all universities in the country held protest marches and took out rallies in support of Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Monday.

The JNU students and some faculty persons were brutally beaten by some anti-social elements by wearing masks to their faces at the university premises on Sunday evening. The people of all sections across the country extended their strong support to the JNU students.

Bollywood stars also rallied behind the injured students, demanding strict action against the perpetrators and sacking of the JNU VC M. Jagadish Kumar. Nearly 34 students and teachers of JNU were discharged on Monday at early hours from AIIMS trauma centre, who were admitted on Sunday night following attacks by masked men in the campus. Two senior wardens of the JNU hostels Periyar and Sabarmati resigned for their jobs on Monday on moral grounds for failing to protect students from the attack.

The Siva Sena Chief and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray stirred the political caldron by equating the attack on JNU students to Mumbai’s 26/11 terror attack.  The Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi demanded an independent judicial enquiry into the violence incident. She also said that the horrifying unprecedented violence unleashed on India’s young by goons with active abetment of the ruling Modi Government is deplorable and unacceptable. Everyday campuses and colleges are raided by police or lumpen elements with support of the BJP Government.

Noble Prize winner and JNU aluminous Abhijit Benerjee said that any Indian who cares about the Nation’s image in the world should worry. This has too many echoes of the years when Germany was moving towards Nazi rule. The JNU students Union President Aisha Gosh said that the clash between two factions of students from BJP and Left affiliations caused the violence incident in the campus.