'Violence has reportedly escalated within Jawaharlal Nehru University, with students, including the students’ union president, alleging that they were attacked by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad while the police looked on. Reports of stone-pelting were reported from within campus on Saturday as well. Students The Wire spoke to said ABVP members were walking through the campus carrying sticks with masks or scarves on their faces, looking for students associated with the fee hike protest.
'The ABVP has found itself in a tight spot with videos of three of its office bearers allegedly threatening and assaulting students at DU over protests against the new citizenship law being circulated on social media. In a 1:27-minute video, ABVP’s Shahdara District Convenor Jitender Chaudhary is seen harassing a student from Kerala. “Do you support CAA or not? Are you in favour of it or against it?”, Chaudhary asks him, to which he says he’s not in favour of the law. Then, another man in the video tells a person who is not in the frame to “take him away”...'
'...“We were all peacefully standing outside,” said Avilasha, a psychology student. “After our examinations got over, we were standing over here and talking. The police were also silently standing. Suddenly, the police started pushing people, police officers held us and started manhandling us. There was a girl who was kicked in her stomach. Every now and then, the police came in groups, dragging people outside the gate. We don’t know where they have been taken.” Saurabh, a law student who participated in the protest, said members of the ABVP approached them at about noon.
'Kolkata police on Monday prevented activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad from reaching the gates of Jadavpur University, spawning clashes four days after unrest first began since Union minister Babul Supriyo alleged he was heckled by college students in a nearly six-hour long standoff on campus on September 19... Angered, the ABVP activists pelted stones at police officers and tried to break barricades. Videos have been doing the rounds on social media which shows them charging at the barricades.
'On Thursday the 19th, BJP MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo was attending an event in Jadavpur University, organised by the ABVP when he was shown black flags and asked to leave by agitating students to which he allegedly responded with threats and physical assaults.Later, the workers with the ABVP and the BJP started a fire and vandalised University premises. A magazine loaded with bullets was found near the university entrance. On Friday evening, thousands of students of Jadavpur University joined a massive anti-ABVP protest rally calling out the violence perpetrated by hooligans.'
'For the past two years, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has been in news for a number of reasons. Starting from widespread protests by girl students in 2017 to several students being expelled on frivolous grounds. The latest is an incident wherein a dalit professor was assaulted allegedly over some “objectionable” comment on a Facebook post. On January 29, a dalit professor from the department of sociology was beaten up by a group of students and outsiders, allegedly for posting a comment on a picture of a professor and a female student, as per reports.
'A scheduled public screening of a documentary by a former student of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who was one the leaders of the 139-day strike in 2015, was cancelled by the varsity’s administration on Thursday, just a few hours before the screening was to take place. Harishankar Nachimuthu, who was president of the FTII students’ union during the 2015 protest, has alleged that the administration received threats from the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), and cancelled the screening under pressure.
'Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the BJP, allegedly physically assaulted some Delhi University students who were participating in a public meeting yesterday, October 27. Many student activists from different groups sustained minor injuries in the attack, which was allegedly led by Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) president Amit Tanwar.
'YOUTHS aligned to the ABVP and an independent students’ organisation called Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday vandalised property and created commotion at a private institute in Udaipur to register their protest against a student from Kashmir who had allegedly shared a post on Facebook praising slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani. Mudasir Rashid, a third-year student of civil engineering, has since been suspended and booked under sedition...'
'...Since January 2016, there have been at least 18 cases of sedition lodged against various citizens, from students and politicians to anti-liquor activists, leaders and activists of reservation movements, Kashmiri activists and even the principal of a school who got a map of India wrong! Apart from Bhat, two other sedition cases were filed over social media posts, on Whatsapp and Facebook. In January, Anwar Sadiq was arrested in Mallappuram, Kerala for allegedly making insulting comments on Facebook about Lt. Col. Niranjan E.
