Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj portrait was vandalised on Sunday at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on the occasion of his birth anniversary, according to the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
The JNU Students’ Union claimed that ABVP activists attacked some students after a march calling for justice for IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki, who allegedly committed suicide. However, the ABVP has denied the accusation.
The JNUSU organised to seek justice for Solanki, 18, a member of the Scheduled Caste community who is believed to have committed suicide on February 12 by jumping from the seventh floor of a hostel building on the IIT Powai campus. His family, however, believes foul play was involved and claims he was the victim of discrimination.
ABVP does this once again to derail the movement against caste discrimination: JNUSU
The JNUSU, in a statement said, “ABVP has once again resorted to attacking students…. This was done soon after a candlelight march in solidarity with the call by Darshan Solanki’s father…. ABVP does this once again to derail the movement against caste discrimination.”
Denying the charge, the ABVP accused the “Left group” of removing a garland from a picture of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and throwing it away.
“Immediately after the programme, the students on the Left came there and removed the garland from the picture and threw it away,” the ABVP said in a statement.
“Today is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. We had put up a portrait of Shivaji Maharaj on the walls outside the student activity centre as tribute. But the ‘communists’ of JNU couldn’t digest this. Members from ‘100 Flowers Group’ and the SFI came and vandalised the portrait of Shivaji Maharaj,” ANI quoted ABVP JNU secretary Umesh Chandra Ajmera as saying.
He further said, that those involved in the incident were “illegal workers” (outsiders) and had entered the college premises without permission.
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