Considering it their "responsibility to express solidarity with the students and faculty of JNU who were terrorised on the night of January 5," 11 alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), along with the support of the institute's Regional Director and Assistant Professor, have penned an open letter to Prime Minister Modi, putting forth their views and stand on the matter.

In their letter, the signatories have stated that it is their "ethical and moral responsibility to do so because this is an assault not against mere individuals, but against the basic fabric of law and liberty that our country promises to all its citizens." Talking about a pattern emerging in the past few months, they have stated that the young students "who should have been applauded for their progressive mindset… are being met with petty vindictiveness by those they criticize," and that the government, instead of having dialogue with them, the state machinery seems focussed upon branding the students as 'anti-nationals," "urban-Naxals" and "tukde-tukde gang," all of which "serve as a distraction from the government's own shortcomings."