‘cheeky ABVP why so creepy’
Cries for 'azaadi' and the 'cheeky ABVP why so creepy', reverberated the DU campus during an anti-ABVP march joined by over 2,000 students and teachers against "onslaught" on universities and "curb" on dissent. Students, teachers and non-teaching staff from various universities including JNU, Jamia and Ambedkar University, participated in the protest march. The march was organised following recent violence at the Ramjas college which saw clashes between ABVP and Left-backed AISA over cancellation of a seminar invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid following opposition the RSS' students' wing.
Massive police deployment was in place at the North Campus. Two AISA members were allegedly attacked by ABVP supporters following which an FIR has been registered by Delhi police. The protest march which comes a day after ABVP's 'Tiranga March' was also joined by few politicians including Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, Swaraj Abhiyan's Yogendra Yadav and AAP's Pankaj Pushkar, who discarded the ABVP's "idea of violence for nationalism".
Fearing rerun of last-week violence, massive police deployment was seen on the varsity's North Campus as protesters continued with their march till they reached the Vivekananda statue in the Art's faculty-- the traditional protest site of ABVP. Buoyed by the turnout at today's protest, DU students have decided to take out another March from Mandi House to Parliament on March 4 in protest against ABVP.