ABVP secretary urged JNU administration to take strict action against the accused (Representational image)
The JNU Students’ Union alleged that some students were attacked by ABVP activists after they took out a march demanding justice for Darshan Solanki, an IIT Bombay student who allegedly committed suicide recently.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members on Sunday accused Left activists of vandalizing the portrait of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on his birth anniversary. The JNU Students’ Union alleged that some students were attacked by ABVP activists after they took out a march demanding justice for Darshan Solanki, an IIT Bombay student who allegedly committed suicide recently. The ABVP, however, denied the allegation.
The JNUSU had organized a march demanding justice for the 18-year-old student who allegedly jumped from the seventh floor of a hostel building in IIT’s Powai campus on February 12. However, his family suspects a conspiracy. And said that he faced discrimination because of being from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community.
In a statement, the JNUSU alleged, “ABVP has once again attacked the students… This darshan was done immediately after the candlelight march in support of Solanki’s father’s call to derail the movement against caste discrimination.” For ABVP does it once again.”
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The ABVP denied the allegation and accused the Left group of throwing a garland at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s photo.
In a statement, the ABVP said, “Soon after the programme, leftist students came there and took off the garland from the photograph and threw it away.”
News agency ANI reported that Shivaji Maharaj’s portrait was pasted on the walls of the Student Activity Centre.
ABVP JNU secretary Umesh Chandra Ajmera said, ‘Today is Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s birth anniversary. We had painted Shivaji Maharaj’s portrait on the walls outside the Student Activity Center as a tribute.
But the ‘communists’ of JNU could not digest this. Ajmera while talking to ANI alleged that ‘100 Flowers Group’ and SFI people came and vandalized the portrait of Shivaji Maharaj. He said that those involved in the incident were “illegal staff” (outsiders) and had entered the college campus without permission.
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