New Delhi Dec 24 PTI A section of academicians on Friday stressed the need for a movement like the one spearheaded by farmers against three agriculture laws to demand a rollback of the National Education Policy NEP which they said is a mockery of the education systemThe Left-affiliated All India Students Association AISA organised a public meeting on Friday on the NEP and to announce its campaign against itAt the meeting professor Syed Irfan Habib said This government and this NEP seek to saffronise our whole culture and our daily lives He said there needs to be a huge movement similar to the one spearheaded by the farmers against the three contentious farm laws to demand that the NEP be rolled backRajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha also sought inspiration from the farmers movementThis draft NEP is your farm bill Prime Minister Narendra Modi too fears the streets and peoples movements the Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD leader saidJawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association JNUTA president Moushumi Basu said education has to be made a political issue and the students and teachers have to start a movement like the farmers didDelhi University DU professor Ratan Lal said the NEP contains high-sounding phrases and makes a mockery of educationIn the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Delhi University some portions of the policy are being implemented If some professors raise their voice they face disciplinary action he saidAnother DU professor Nandita Narain concurred with Lal saying the policy is all rhetoric Speaking of the ills of online education she said the NEP enforces itThe AISA announced the start of a 50-day campaign against the NEP culminating in a Parliament gherao programme during the budget session from all over the countryThe movement will take up different activities all over the country including collecting signatures and protests on all campuses the students body said PTI SLB RC