ART+ | Meanwhile 2 ABVP activists, held for campus attack, suspended
Tourists cluster to Brazil’s famed Sambadrome
A day after two ABVP members were arrested for allegedly attacking a group of AISA supporters, the RSS-backed outfit suspended the two for their act of “indiscipline”.
The accused, Prashant Mishra and Vinayak Sharma, allegedly strangled AISA activists Raj Singh and Utkarsh Bhardwaj near Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College on Tuesday evening.
“We condemn this act by the two students and advocate a violence-free atmosphere on campus. On basis of preliminary information, the two members have been suspended from the party for their act of indiscipline. An interim inquiry has been ordered to take further action,” ABVP national media convenor Saket Bahuhuna said.
Meanwhile, the police said that they were released on bail on the same day.
However, the ABVP also filed a counter-complaint during the day against AllIndia Students’ Association (AISA) members, claiming
The ABVP also filed a counter-complaint against AISA members, claiming that one of the two arrested suffered a hand fracture during the scuffle
that one of the two arrested suffered a hand fracture during the scuffle. Utkarsh and Raj had claimed that they were attacked by seven to eight people of the ABVP near SGTB Khalsa College and strangled with belts. The incident happened when the AISA activists were returning from the Arts Faculty of the North Campus after the anti-ABVP march ended.
The police had then nabbed Prashant and Vinayak from the spot and booked them under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), the police said.
“They held my neck and tried to strangle me with hand,” said the letter written by one of the AISA members.
The highlight of the year for many in Brazil is Rio de Janeiro’s over-the-top party and competition at the famed Sambadrome.
This year featured sensual red devils, the classic high-heeled women in barely covering outfits of feathers, singing performers with instruments, and people in large dresses spinning across the floor to impress the judges.
There was plenty of action outside the famed stadium, too. While the city’s elite held a private bash in tuxedos and cocktail dresses resembling the Great Gatsby era, outside in the street a scrawny young boy sold cans of spray foam to partiers at an anti-government Carnival protest and costumed patients from a mental hospital sat dazed on the sidewalk.
Men in blue beards partied in the streets as did a half-man, half-unicorn and Mike the boxing dog. People in costumes from The Simpsons and Wonder Woman brought colour to the subway, and one man squeezed in a power nap along the parade route.
In other parts of Brazil, muddy men bonded over beer and celebrants in rural areas honoured traditions dating back to the country’s sugar plantation days. Outside Brazil, rum-fuelled parties and high-energy dance music gave life to a city in southern Haiti still recovering from last fall’s punishing Hurricane Matthew. An elderly couple in Panama showed up in bride and groom costumes. In Oruro, Bolivia, local people in colourful horned costumes performed the Dance of the Devils, a celebration that has developed over more than 200 years to blend pagan and Roman Catholic religious practices.