ABVP, the student’s wing of BJP on Tuesday (21st,
Feb, 2017) disrupted an event for which Jawaharlal Nehru University
student Umar Khalid was invited, prompting the college to take back an
invitation to another JNU student, Shehla Rashid.
Khalid was invited by the college’s Literary Society to
speak in the afternoon on a subject related to his PhD, which he is doing from
JNU. His topic at the seminar was The War in Adivasi Areas.
The protesters allegedly threw stones despite police
deployment.
As per Vinita Chandra’s words, an English teacher of
the college, “A large group of students had gathered near the venue and were
shouting slogans”
She said some of the students unhappy with the slogans went out of the conference hall and held a “peaceful” counter-protest, and walked back in a while later.
“But before the second session was about to begin, electricity to the hall was switched off and stones came flying in. Window panes of the hall were broken. I wonder why police could not stop the protesters from throwing stones.”
On the next day, Wednesday-22nd ,Feb,2017, students from several Delhi colleges and universities, led by the SFI and the CPIML-Liberation backed All India Students Association (AISA), marched from Ramjas College to Maurice Nagar police station to demand action against the ABVP.
Several injured
as ABVP disrupts students' march against violence
Delhi University's Ramjas College turned into a battleground
after ABVP activists attacked a student march to demand action against the RSS-backed
union for disrupting a seminar series at the college yesterday.
Members of the ABVP attacked protesting students,
breaking through the chain formed by the police, beating some of them and
pulling women by their hair. Even journalists capturing the violence on their
phones were not spared.
The violence was not restricted to the streets. In Ramjas College, students and organizers of the ‘Cultures of Protest’ were held captive and beaten up by the ABVP. Even teachers were not spared.
Prasanta Chakraborty, Delhi University English professor, was taken away in an ambulance. The students were kept from leaving the college and joining a planned march. Prasanta Chakraborty was standing on the road outside Ramjas College when he was attacked from behind.
"There were around 15
of them. They pushed me down, kicked and punched me and tried to strangle me
with my muffler," he said this evening. "All the while,"
Chakraborty said, "the police stood as mute spectators watching me get
thrashed." Chakraborty has been admitted to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital with
at least two other teachers and several students.
A student, Burhan Qureshi, was hit on the head by a flying glass bottle.
At least three reporters were thrashed and had their cameras and phones smashed.
Later, students led by the All India Students’ Union (AISA) managed to head towards the Maurice Nagar police station with the police forming a human chain around them. This, however, failed to act as a deterrent as the students were attacked again. This time, it was outside SRCC when ABVP members cut across the Arts Faculty and intercepted the march. The tense situation continued till the two groups reached the police station.
The ABVP activists first blocked the college gates to prevent the 2.5km march from starting. They disrupted a gathering of protesters inside the college and assaulted any suspected Left activist on the road outside.
Shehla, who was clicking pictures, was dragged by her hair by three ABVP women activists and kicked before being rescued by the police and AISA activists. The marchers hit back, ripping off ABVP law faculty leader Anurag Gautam's kurta and punching one of the women who assaulted Shehla.
Shehla picked up a stone that had hit a marcher in her chest and handed it to a head constable. "You have chosen to be blind today," she said dropping it into his palm. "You have failed in your duty."
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