ABVP Allegedly Attacks Delhi University Students, Journalist at Public Meeting

'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. Students present in the meeting said that a journalist working with the Times of India, Ibrar, was also injured in the attack, adding that the violence took place in front of a large troupe of police personnel stationed there to keep guard.

The meeting, called ‘The idea of a university’, was hosted by the left-wing student group All India Students Association (AISA) at the arts faculty at Delhi University’s north campus. Several eminent academics and activists spoke at the event. According to a student present at the meeting, the aim of the meeting was to provide a rational critique to the “declining autonomy of university spaces under the Modi government, especially in the light of “unilateral education reforms, attack on free speech in academic spaces and a clampdown on students’ movements against the privatisation and saffronisation of public education” over the last few years...'