ABVP activists disrupt Prashant Bhushan event

Lawyer Prashant Bhushan was escorted out of a college here by police during a seminar after ABVP activists allegedly barged into the premises and disrupted the event.

ALIGARH (UP): Lawyer Prashant Bhushan had to be escorted out of a college auditorium here by police during a seminar after ABVP activists allegedly barged into the premises and disrupted the programme.

The incident took place on Saturday when ABVP activists protested against Bhushan at the Dharam Samaj Degree College for allegedly trying to level false corruption charges against the Modi government, according to the organisers. ABVP is the student wing of the BJP. The activists also objected to the presence of the AMU students union president Faizul Hasan at the seminar.

Sensing that the situation could go out of control, Hasan decided to leave the auditorium.

Both the organisers and the ABVP have filed a complaint at the Gandhi Park police station.

SP (city) Atul Srivastava told PTI that a case would be registered after due investigation.

The seminar was organised by the Uttar Pradesh Swaraj Abhiyan on “peace and corruptionfree India”.

ABVP leader Amit Goswami said that they had opposed the presence of Hasan at the college because he had supported the “anti-national stand of JNU student leader Kanhiya Kumar”.