Sibal shows power

Despite calls by Kapil Sibal and his colleagues in the cabinet that Anna's supporters should hold the protests peacefully, the HRD Minister's supporters themselves resorted to violence.
The students, belonging to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, were beaten up by goons from Chandni Chown as they raised slogans against the government and Kapil Sibal.
Several of them, from the All India Student's Association, also raised black flags and posters just as Sibal got up to speak. Organisers of the event were taken by surprise as the protesters, numbering about a dozen odd were seated in the middle of the Mavalankar auditorium,
got up on their seats and started raising slogans calling for introduction of a Jan Lokpal Bill.
The sloganeering led to inflamed tempres as supporters of the HRD Minister also countered the protesters by shouting slogans praising the government and Sibal.
The protest by AISA students' led to a fight between Sibal supporters and students. With numbers in their favour, Sibal supporters were able to expel from the seminar venue after a brief scuffle. It was only after the expulsion of this group that Sibal was able to speak.
Though the seminar addressed by him today was marred by violence, the Minister called on the students to protest peacefully. Another farce exposed.