The repercussion of the Ramjas violence was a series of protests followed by counter-protests. The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), led by the ABVP, held a Tiranga March on Monday propagating nationalism in students while the students and teachers from DU and JNU, Left and AAP-affiliated student groups are to the streets[Read More…]
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Act cautiously on Ramjas: Rajnath Singh to Police
Will not be cowed down by rape threats, says Kargil martyr’s daughter
Ramjas is not an isolated incident but a part of the Left’s organized pattern
The unfortunate incident of a students’ clash at the Ramjas college of Delhi University has been projected as an issue of free speech & democratic rights. But what is being missed in the coverage by the various media outlets is that this is not an isolated incident but part of[Read More…]
Gurmehar Kaur receives ‘rape threats’ for opposing ABVP
Gurmehar Kaur, whose social media campaign against ABVP recently spread across college in India alleged on Monday to have received “rape threats”. The student of Lady Sri Ram Ram College, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, claimed to have received a number of hate messages over her stand on[Read More…]
No anti-India slogans will be allowed in the name of free speech: Kiren Rijiju on Ramjas
ABVP, AISA activists clash over blocking of Umar Khalid’s visit to Ramjas college
Around 20 students were reportedly injured as two groups clashed at the Delhi University on Wednesday over the Ramjas College cancelling its invite to JNU’s Umar Khalid for a seminar. A large number of policemen were seen trying to control the aggressive crowd. Activists of the Left-backed All India Students[Read More…]
ABVP disrupts seminar in Ramjas college; throw stones, attack students
Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s student activists disrupted a seminar that had JNU student Umar Khalid, eminent film maker Sanjay Kak and Bimol Akoijam as speakers. The two-day long seminar is organised by Wordcraft, the literary society of Ramjas College, on ‘Cultures of Protests’. The members of ABVP, who opposed[Read More…]
Left Unity wins 14 out of the 15 councillor seats in JNU
The United Left has claimed victory over 14 councilor seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University’s three of the largest schools. The remaining one seat in the combined seats of School of Languages, School of International Studies and School of Social Sciences has been claimed by Democratic Students’ Federation (DSF). An alliance[Read More…]
ABVP claims three top posts in DUSU elections
ABVP, the student wing of BJP won three of the top posts of Delhi University Students’ Union, but ceded one position to the Congress’s student wing NSUI. The elections of DUSU were held on Friday. Over 36% of cast their ballots and the voting percentage recorded a drop by 7%.[Read More…]
JNU, DU elections: Polling underway in both universities as students flock to cast ballots
The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Delhi University (DU) vote to elect their representatives for the students unions on Friday. Currently, voting is underway in the two politically charged campuses and the nerve centres of student politics in Delhi. The JNU elections are the most closely watched one after[Read More…]
Karnataka police file sedition case against Amnesty for anti-India slogans
A case of sedition has been filed against Amnesty India by the Karnataka police after anti-India slogans were allegedly raised during a debate on Kashmir. Amnesty has not received the FIR, but is questioning why organising an event to defend constitutional values is being criminalised. The debate, which included students and[Read More…]
ABVP, Bajrang Dal ‘cleanse’ Dinkar statue garlanded by Kanhaiya
A group of right-winged activists from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP and Bajrang Dal ‘cleansed’ the statue of renowned Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar with ‘gangajal’ in Bihar’s Begusarai district to protest against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar’s floral tribute to the poet on Friday. The ABVP and Bajrang Dal[Read More…]