JNU Pupil Teams Face Off Late Evening Over Pupil Union Polls

The college administration is but to situation an announcement over the incident.

New Delhi:

Three college students had been injured on the Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) after members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Left-backed teams clashed on Thursday night time, police stated.

Movies shared by the coed teams present chaos contained in the college campus as a bunch of scholars rain blows and assault one another throughout a basic physique assembly for the upcoming college students’ union polls.

An argument broke out between the teams over the number of election committee members on the Faculty of Languages final night time after which the scholars started combating with one another.

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One of many movies reveals a scholar bleeding from his head as he’s led away from the group, whereas one other reveals a person tossing a cycle at a bunch of scholars. A couple of of them have admitted to Safdarjung Hospital after being injured, a JNU official informed new company PTI.

Whereas the college administration is but to situation an announcement over the incident, the coed teams have blamed one another for the conflict. Nonetheless, the police stated they haven’t acquired any complaints within the matter.

Left-affiliated Democratic College students’ Federation (DSF) and All India College students Affiliation (AISA) alleged ABVP members disrupted the assembly and used casteist and sexist slurs to threaten college students and heckle safety guards.

“The VC workplace should acknowledge this act of vandalism and violence by the ABVP goons, whose faces are clearly seen and are seen within the movies circulating on-line. These perpetrators should be punished; they need to be booked below related sections for unleashing such unprecedented violence,” the AISA stated in an announcement.

The best wing college students’ group blamed JNU College students’ Union and College students’ Federation of India (SFI) president, Aishe Ghosh for launching a “vicious assault on college students” and likewise concentrating on disabled college students.

“The assault on college students of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Research represents a grave violation of the rules of training, tolerance, and human decency,” the ABVP stated.