New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) staged demonstrations on Monday over the building collapse in Satya Niketan, demanding strict accountability and swift legal action against those responsible.

NSUI President Vinod Jakhar alleged significant shortcomings in the emergency response, questioning the preparedness of official agencies to handle such a crisis.

Jakhar claimed the entire system had faltered due to an absence of disaster response planning, structured management, specialised machinery, and trained rescue teams.

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Speaking to ANI, Jakhar said, "It is a massive failure that the students have not yet been rescued. We are not sitting in some remote village; we are in Delhi, the national capital... Your system has failed completely because you lack a disaster plan; you lack management; you have nothing. You do not even have the equipment needed to get those children out. You do not even have a proper team. Where is CM Rekha Gupta? Bansuri Swaraj stayed for five minutes; Rekha Gupta stayed for half an hour... There is absolutely no accountability for them.”

Jakhar called for the immediate demolition of private paying-guest (PG) accommodations, urging authorities to construct government-run student hostels in their stead.

“We demand the demolition of all these private PGs and the construction of new government hostels in their place. We also demand compensation for the families who have lost their children, the best possible medical treatment for the surviving students, and the strictest action against those responsible,” he added.

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ABVP National Social Media Convenor Prerna Bhardwaj stated that her organisation's representatives had been present at the incident site since Sunday, protesting in solidarity with affected students.

She noted that ABVP supporters had also picketed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) headquarters to demand the immediate resignation of the MCD Commissioner.

"We have been here since yesterday. A building has collapsed in Satya Niketan, and students have died. A lot of students are still being rescued, and this is a very tragic thing that has happened. We are sitting here in solidarity. We had a protest yesterday at the MCD office as well, and we demanded the resignation of the MCD Commissioner. We are all sitting here, and we are demanding accountability. What is the actual standard of student safety on the campus? That is our question, and we are not standing up from here until the last student is rescued,” Bhardwaj said.

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Meanwhile, Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa, MCD Commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar, BJP MLA Anil Sharma, and senior officials visited the disaster scene to review recovery operations.

The death toll from the collapse has climbed to six, with emergency rescue units continuing intensive debris-clearing efforts to check for any individuals who remain trapped beneath the rubble.

ANI