Delhi university ABVP students openly indulge in violence  

With the Delhi police as mute spectators, the Akil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, student wing of RSS-BJP indulged in outrageous violence against students of the AISA(All India Students Association), not sparing teachers, journalists who were in the scene and also some police personnel. All this was witnessed and caught on camera at Ramjas college, a part of the Delhi university.

The ABVP had raised objections on Tuesday itself to the invitation of Umar Khalid, to speak on tribal rights in Bastar in a seminar which has ironically been called, “Culture of protest.” Umar Khalid and Sheila Rashid, both students of JNU were stopped on grounds that they were “anti-national” and therefore not allowed in Ramjas college. Instead of being prepared to avert any kind of violence, the Delhi police were again proved to be totally clueless and ineffective on Wesnesday, even as ABVP students acted like “goondas” and resorted to extreme violence, stone-pelting, punching, slapping and kicking helpless adversaries, including many women.

It was a repeat of last year events in the national capital. The Right-wing mobs had locked a judge and the accused in the sedition case( Kanhaiya kumar) into a room inside Delhi’s Patiala House court complex while they beat up journalists and students outside. Many lawyers had indulged in violence and they all went unpunished.

The events happening in Delhi puts to shame the ruling BJP – in their failure to maintain law and order in the national capital, as the Delhi police directly is under the control of the Home Ministry. This time it is their student- wing that is involved. What will Venkaiah Naidu say now?