NEW DELHI: A number of college students, together with JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, have been badly injured in violence between ABVP and Left college students on the varsity campus on Sunday night. Outsiders have been additionally reportedly concerned.
Visuals from the spot confirmed a profusely bleeding Ghosh, who was reportedly hit over the attention with an iron rod. She was taken to a close-by hospital.
Common Secretary Satish Chandra was additionally injured, and a few academics had additionally been allegedly assaulted.
In line with stories from the spot, a mob of outsiders, brandishing lathis, from Munirka space had entered the campus. The miscreants have now reportedly fled.
Earlier, the Akhil Bhartiya Vidhayrthi Parishad (ABVP) accused Left college students of vandalising the Periyar hostel of Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) and severely injuring varied college students current contained in the hostel.
“Round 4 to 5 hundred members of the Left gathered across the Periyar hostel, vandalised the hostel and forcibly entered the hostel to thrash the ABVP activists inside,” ABVP’s JNU unit President Durgesh instructed IANS.
The ABVP claims its presidential candidate Manish Jangid was injured badly and will have suffered a fractured hand.
He additional alleged that stones have been additionally hurled at college students which brought on extreme head accidents to a few of them.
“They hurled stones, used batons to thrash college students inside,” he added. Nevertheless, the JNUSU led by the Left scholar wing was fast to brush off claims and as a substitute focused the ABVP and the administration for spreading false narrative.
“The ABVP and administration have been focusing on the scholars’ protest in opposition to the price hike. That is nothing however a false allegation to misguide college students and the society,” JNUSU Common Secretary Satish Chandra instructed IANS.
In the meantime, a number of political leaders have expressed considerations over the brazen assaults on college students in a premier college just like the JNU.
“The fascists in charge of our nation, are afraid of the voices of our courageous college students. In the present days violence in JNU is a mirrored image of that concern,” tweeted Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
The brutal assault on JNU college students & academics by masked thugs, that has left many severely injured, is surprising. https://t.co/9gzUAVyM8P
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1578239465000
“I’m so shocked to know in regards to the violence at JNU. College students attacked brutally. Police ought to instantly cease violence and restore peace. How will the nation progress if our college students is not going to be protected inside univ campus?” Arvind Kejriwal stated in a tweet.
I’m so shocked to know abt the violence at JNU. College students attacked brutally. Police shud instantly cease violence https://t.co/1uYRhRq6J7
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) 1578236063000
