CM meets LG, demands action against ABVP for triggering row
CAMPUS VIOLENCE Baijal vows ‘strict action’ against violaters, AAP backs Gurmehar Kaur I want to ask those who are politicising the matter that what they have to say about Gurmehar Kaur’s father who was killed by terrorists.
NEWDELHI:The Aam Aadmi Party jumped into the controversy at Delhi University on Tuesday, with Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal meeting the lieutenant governor and demanding action against ABVP for allegedly triggering violence on the campus last week.
Senior party leaders also made a representation to Delhi Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik in support of Gurmehar Kaur, who received threats online, even as the student wing of the ruling party in the Capital joined the protest march in the university on Tuesday.
Kaur, a martyr’s daughter and a first-year English student at Lady Shri Ram College, has been at the centre of the controversy following her stance against RSS-backed Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
After the meeting with L-G Anil Baijal, Kejriwal alleged that both BJP and ABVP are indulged in anti-national activities across the country.
“They (BJP and ABVP) send their people and make them shout anti-national slogans. When their people run away from the spot, they reach there and beat up innocent persons,” Kejriwal told reporters after he met Baijal at the L-G secretariat.
He also alleged that in the JNU incident in 2016, it was ABVP members who were involved in raising anti-national slogans.
“No one has been arrested in connection with anti-national slogans in the JNU incident because if police arrests the culprits, it will be revealed that ABVP members were involved in the case,” Kejriwal alleged.
After the meeting, L-G’s office tweeted saying he assured the chief minister “that strict immediate action will be taken against those violating law”.
Other AAP leaders, Atishi Marlena, Alka Lamba, and Sarita Singh, met senior police officials to discuss the threats to Kaur and violence against women during the protest at Ramjas College on February 22.
“Hooliganism is going on in broad daylight in the city. It is both on our streets and online. This cannot be acceptable,” said Marlena, advisor to Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Marlena told HT that they approached Delhi Police to discuss what action has been taken by them against those seen attacking women at the protest march.
They (BJP) send their people to shout antiIndia slogans and then their supporters beat up others for shouting the slogans. If you speak against nation, people will not like it. If someone goes against the nation, he or she won’t be spared irrespective of gender. If a hardly literate player troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr, it’s understandable, but what’s wrong with some educated folks.