The Chief Election Commission on Thursday said that EVMs used for DUSU election were not supplied by them to the Delhi University. The commission stated that it “seems the university has procured these machines privately”. Earlier today, the Congress’ students’ wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) whose candidates for[Read More…]
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ABVP bags President, two other posts in DUSU polls
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday won the posts of President, Vice President and Joint Secretary in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections. NSUI bagged the post of Secretary. The results for the four posts, elected for one year, were announced late evening. The[Read More…]
DUSU results 2018: NSUI alleges EVM malfunction, counting suspended
NSUI demands re-election due to faulty EVMs RSS-youth wing ABVP is demanding that counting of votes be resumed, but NSUI is asking for a re-election following six faulty EVMs. DUSU Election Result 2018: Counting remain suspended till further orders NSUI alleges EVM problems The student wing of Congress, NSUI has alleged technical glitches[Read More…]
DUSU polls: ABVP members ransack Delhi college
A group of election campaigners of ABVP on Monday ran amok on the premises of Delhi’s Zakir Hussain College, wielding sticks and raising slogans, and breaking flower-pots and furniture, allegedly because they were denied entry by the college guard. Struck by the unruliness of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists, students of the college picketed outside the college and demanded action[Read More…]
SFS candidate Kanu Priya elected Panjab University student council president
SFS candidate Kanu Priya is elected president of Panjab University students’ council. She is the first woman to win the top post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post in Panjab University students’ council election. There were[Read More…]
NSUI bags top post in MS University students’ polls, ABVP draws blank
National Students Union of India (NSUI) candidates won the post of general secretary in the Maharaja Sayajirao University Students Union (MSUSU) elections. NSUI’s Vraj Patel won the post of university general secretary by bagging 6,727 votes. He defeated (Vidyarthi Vikas Parishad) VVS’s Harshal Chaudhary. The party was floated by NSUI[Read More…]
Political Circus: Should BJP worry about growing Dalit alienation?
For the third time since the Narendra Modi government’s assumption of office, the Dalits have come into conflict with the Hindutva brigade. The first time was in Una in Gujarat, where a group of Dalits were thrashed by saffron activists for skinning a cow, a traditional occupation of the “untouchables”.[Read More…]
DUSU poll results: NSUI win three seats with president post; ABVP wins secretary
The results of the elections to Delhi University Students’ Union has been declared on Wednesday with NSUI winning three seats along with the president post. ABVP won the post of secretary in a close contest. NSUI won president, vice-president and joint secretary post while ABVP won secretary post. The NSUI[Read More…]
AISA activists allegedly attacked by ABVP members
All India Students Association (AISA) activists were allegedly attacked by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reported India.com According to AISA members, their activists Sudhanshu and Aman were attacked by ABVP’s Chhattarpal Yadav, former Delhi University Students Union (DUSU)[Read More…]
ABVP leader slaps DU professor for awarding him ‘zero marks’
An FIR has been registered by Delhi Police against a student of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) for allegedly assaulting a teacher on Friday evening for giving him zero marks in his internal assessment. The teacher was assaulted in the college parking lot for “ruining his future”. RP Rustagi,[Read More…]
A right-wing outfit demands scrapping of Article 370
A right-wing group on Friday demanded to scrap Article 370 that grants special autonomous status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, they also asked the country to take the initiative to declare Pakistan a terrorist state. This outfit believes that providing a special status to Jammu and Kashmir[Read More…]
Abhinav Prakash: The right-wing Ambedkarite
Coming from a middle-class Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh, Abhinav Prakash saw the interplay of caste and class from a vantage point early in life. During his days in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, he got dismayed by the appropriation of the Dalit discourse by non-Dalits. With the belief that he[Read More…]
Najeeb Ahmed case: Court rejects students’ plea against polygraph test
A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed the plea of nine JNU students in which they had claimed that they cannot be asked by Delhi Police to give their consent for lie detector test in a case related to the missing student Najeeb Ahmed. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass summoned all[Read More…]
Missing JNU student: Court to hear students plea on Monday
In recent development in the missing JNU student case, the Patiala House Court on Monday to hear the students’ plea against the police move to conduct lie detector test on them. Earlier the Delhi Police has asked the students to under-go a lie detector test, as many as 90 students[Read More…]
ABVP activists disrupt Prashant Bhushan’s programme
ABVP demands unconditional apology from Twitter
ABVP agitate over ex-BHU professor’s remarks
Nagpur University puts off Sitaram Yechury’s speech
ABVP activists vow to foil seminar on fascism
I take back my ‘harsh’ words on Sehwag: Javed
DUSU Joint Secretary appeals to ban ABVP on campus
Varsities should be place of debate, not violence: Pranab Mukherjee
In the backdrop of ongoing tussle between RSS-affiliate ABVP and Left-backed AISA supporters in the Delhi University, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said students and faculties must engage in reasoned discussion and debate rather than propagating a culture of unrest.He also said it was tragic to see students caught in[Read More…]
Nationalism a bad word only in India: Jaitley
ABVP march in DU for on-campus exclusion of Left
Stifling Freedom of Expression makes the weakest suffer the most
ABVP members were at it again, beating up students/ activists who wanted to have a discussion over something. Despite clear evidence of the violence, and lots of gloating about the evidence, there (like always) are ‘neutral’ people who think that the ABVP members were right in their actions; that ‘anti-national’[Read More…]