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High drama unfolded outside Jamia Millia Islamia as students resumed their protests demanding a timeline for student council elections. Despite a notification from the university registrar regarding conducting polls within 15 days of the constitution's approval, students rejected the order as ambiguous. The university administration blocked campus gates, shifted classes to online mode, and deployed Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel. Confrontations escalated as hundreds of students gathered and attempted to enter the university grounds, leading to several male and female protesters being detained by police.

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00:00There's high drama outside Jamia, Milia University at this point in time.
00:04Students are protesting, cops are detaining the protesting students.
00:07Cops have moved in as protesters are refusing to budge.
00:11Students have been detained outside the Jamia campus.
00:15Heavy police deployment can be seen outside Jamia campus.
00:19There is heavy sloganering also inside Jamia campus can be seen.
00:23Police action is being seen outside of Jamia.
00:27Delhi police has detained the protesting students.
00:30And students are sloganeering both inside and outside the campuses.
00:34There are visuals on the right side of your screen at the moment.
00:37You can clearly see that a lot of detentions are taking place.
00:40And Anmol Bali is joining in on live as well.
00:43Anmol, give us more understanding of what are you seeing at the spot at the moment.
00:48Jamia campus, some detentions happening, sloganeering continuing.
00:55The protest in the deadlock between the Jamia administration and the protesting students have intensified.
01:01Currently, I am here outside the Jamia, Milia Islamia University campus, where you can clearly see in the visuals that
01:07they have blocked all the gates.
01:08The administration has asked paramilitary forces and Delhi police personnel to block all the gates and stop the students to
01:14enter inside the campus.
01:15Because today we have seen that again students have resumed their protest for the student council elections inside the campus.
01:22We have seen that a notification came from the registrar office where they have said that they will be conducting
01:27the student polls.
01:28But on the other hand, the students said that they need a timeline, they need a date for the elections.
01:34But on the other hand, when no date was given by the administration, the students have again resumed their protest
01:39inside the campus.
01:40Two students are sitting for the hunger strikes.
01:42And then we have seen that the university administration has stopped the students to enter inside the campus because the
01:48classes now have been shifted to online mode.
01:50But in a few minutes, a few minutes ago, we have seen that hundreds of students came here that tried
01:56to enter inside the campus.
01:57But on the other hand, here in the visuals, I'll show you that paramilitary forces and Delhi police personnel have
02:02been deployed here.
02:03They have kind of blocked the gate and the entrance for the students to enter inside the campus.
02:08And here in the visuals, you can see that students are holding placards and posters in their hands.
02:13Jamia is ours.
02:14This university is not a prison.
02:17I'll ask my camera person to show you the posters, the placards the students are holding in their hands.
02:23You can clearly read Jamia is ours.
02:25This is our university, not a prison.
02:28So in the visuals, you can see the kind of confrontation taking place between the students and the paramilitary forces
02:34because many of the students have tried to climb the gate.
02:38They have tried to enter inside the campus.
02:40And then we have seen dramatic visuals that Delhi police action took place where Delhi police has detained many of
02:46the protesting students, many of the male and female students, those who are protesting.
02:50So clearly in the visuals, you can see that heavy deployment of paramilitary forces.
02:54And Delhi police has been done here outside the campus.
02:57They have stopped students to enter inside the campus because from the last 12 days, we are seeing a protest
03:01going inside Jamia Miliya Islamiyah University,
03:04where various student organizations are demanding student polls inside the campus.
03:09But here in the visuals, I'll show you that students are coming out from their hostels.
03:14They're coming out from their...
03:14We'll continue to get more updates from you during the course of the day.
03:18But remember, viewers, Jamia Miliya Islamiyah has ordered the resumption of students' union election.
03:23Starting polls will be held within 15 days of the approval of the union's constitution.
03:28The university has also revoked the suspension orders and show course notices issued to the students.
03:32But at this point in time, we are looking at how protesting students have rejected administration's order, calling it ambiguous.
03:38Thank you guys.

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