ABVP leaders meet Delhi L-G, seek probe into sloganeering at Ramjas

NEW DELHI: Lieutenant governor Anil Baijal on Friday assured that Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) that he will ask the police to look into complaints of alleged anti-national slogans raised at Ramjas College on February 21 and the violence which took place on February 22.

The five-member ABVP delegation met Baijal on Friday demanding police intervention in the matter.

Violence erupted after a literary festival at Delhi University’s Ramjas College was cancelled.

The event had to be called off after ABVP objected to inviting Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar Umar Khalid, who is an accused in the JNU sedition case of February 9, 2016.

“We were assured that he will speak to Delhi Police about the matter,” said Saket Bahuguna, ABVP national media convener.

ABVP told the lieutenant governor that no separate FIR has been filed in the Ramjas incident based on their complaint.

The RSS-affiliated student body also asked the lieutenant governor for a probe into the alleged rape threats to Gurmehar Kaur, a student of Lady Shri Ram College and a martyr’s daughter, who had started a campaign against ABVP.

Kaur alleged that she had received rape threats for running her campaign.

They also raised the issue of February 9 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition case, in which Delhi Police are yet to file a chargesheet.

“We want them (police) to identify those who raised the slogans as well as the organisers of the event where anti-national slogans were raised,” said Bahuguna.

The group also submitted a memorandum to the lieutenant governor about the killing of ABVP activists in Kerala.

On the same Ramjas College row the students, teachers and left leaning organisations will be leading a citizens march on Saturday from Mandi House to Parliament Street.

‘GORY’ POSTERS

On the Delhi University campus, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) complained to the police and asked them to remove the hoardings put up by ABVP on Thursday.

The pictures used on the hoardings related to the killings of RSS workers in other parts of the country, which NSUI described as brutal and violent.

“The hoardings which have been put up are inciting in nature. These placards have been attributed to Delhi University Students Union and ABVP. As a member of DUSU, I disown the hoardings. The ABVP needs to understand they do not own DUSU and it’s criminal to use the name of students union,” said Mohit Garid, DUSU joint secretary.

We were assured that he (lieutenant governor) will speak to Delhi Police about the matter... We want them (police) to identify those who raised the slogans as well as the organisers of the event where antinational slogans were raised. SAKET BAHUGUNA, national media convener of ABVP