Swaraj Abhiyan's Yogendra Yadav and former JNU students Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday joined the JNU fee hike protests. "We are witnessing privatisation of higher education and all these tiny fee hikes, increase in costs, they are steps in that direction," Yadav said. "When JNU students...protest, they're lathi-charged. It shows the true face of the government," Khalid said.