"The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (ABVP) swept the Delhi University Students' Union elections after 17 years. The last time the party was able to bag all positions - president, vice president, secretary and joint secretary - was in 1997. The ecstatic party workers credited the 'Modi factor' and the rollback of the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) for the emphatic win. "There is no denying that the Modi factor helped us.
"A day after Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s College retracted its invitation to Dalit activist Sheetal Sathe following threats from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Ms. Sathe sent a statement on Thursday clarifying that she stayed away only because she did not want to jeopardise the college festival ‘Malhar’. “The only reason she is not on stage is not out of fear but out of deep appreciation for the courage and integrity of St. Xavier’s College,” said documentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan, on her behalf. Ms.
"The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has forced St. Xavier’s College here to retract an invitation extended to Dalit activist and singer Sheetal Sathe. Ms. Sathe was arrested in April 2013 for allegedly supporting Naxal activities and later granted bail. She was invited by the organisers of St. Xavier’s annual festival, ‘Malhar’, to participate in a panel discussion on ‘The invisibility of caste’ on Thursday. With the ABVP threatening to disrupt the festival if she was allowed to attend, the organisers withdrew the invitation on Wednesday..."
" With the BJP having come to power, Hindu outfits the VHP, the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) and the ABVP, the RSS students’ wing, are going for an organisational expansion in Uttar Pradesh. Separate efforts by the three organisations had helped the BJP win 71 of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, where assembly elections are due in 2016. In a recent meeting, HYV head Yogi Adityanath, a BJP MP, set a target of at least one lakh volunteers in each district by September-end. The HYV has 90 units in 75 districts, with an average 7,000 volunteers in each.
"Shouting slogans like 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Vande Mataram', over three dozen ABVP activists forcibly entered the seminar room and damaged property. The seminar was organized at AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies to discuss the arrest of GN Saibaba, a professor at Ram Lal Anand College in Delhi. He was arrestedon May 9 by Maharashtra Police in Delhi for his alleged links with Maoists..."
"Suddenly, RSS which was becoming moribund and seen to be out of tune with the times, is growing... In less than three months, more than 2,000 shakhas have sprouted across the country... "More and more young people are coming forward and joining shakhas," says Atul Singh, who heads a newly established shakha in Lucknow. "The surge clearly shows how the attraction of power is working for RSS," says a Sangh activist who did not want to be named. "Students associated with ABVP have joined in large numbers over the past six months.
"A professor of zoology in Delhi University's North Campus, Umesh Rai, was allegedly roughed up by the Joint Secretary of the Delhi University Students' Union Raju Rawat for purportedly making derogatory remarks against BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Mr. Rawat is a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh..."
"Dozens of members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday tried to disrupt a program organized by some academicians on the issue of Muzaffarnagar riots at Delhi School of Economics. The activists also shouted at speakers and chased some Kashmiri girl students who were attending the program. “As soon as I started speaking they shouted slogans and tried to disturb the program,” Ish Mishra, professor of Political Science at Hindu College of Delhi University, told India Tomorrow.
"... “Why did you invite the Kabir Kala Manch? Are you a Naxalite?” the ABVP activist asked Ajayan. “When I said no, he asked me which party I support. I said I am an artist and do not have political affiliations,” Ajayan told The Hindu. “If you want to prove you are not a Naxalite, then say Jai Narendra Modi,” the ABVP activist stated. When Ajayan refused to do so, the activist shouted, “He is a Naxalite,” after which he was surrounded by other ABVP activists, who started assaulting him, Ajayan has alleged. Four other FTII students were also injured.
"FTII Students’ Association Press Release, 22/08/13
Five students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were attacked outside of the National Film Archives of India (NFAI) on Wednesday 21/08/13 by the Akhila Bharateeya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP).
