After rape threat, student withdraws from anti-ABVP campaign

CM Arvind Kejriwal took to the microblogging site Twitter and said, “he met Baijal and demanded the arrest of “those who caused violence in DU, shouted anti-India slogans and who threatened (student) Gurmehar (Kaur)”.

“The campaign is about students and not about me”.

She says “the campaign is about students and not about me”. I am not afraid of ABVP.

“Two things I want to clarify is that they don’t understand my idea of patriotism and this student campaign is not a political movement”.

Gurmehar had started a campaign against the ABVP, the youth wing of the RSS that was embroiled in the recent controversy of beating up students during a protest near the Maurice Nagar police station. Use the hashtag #StudentsAgainstABVP and copy paste this message along with it. The members of the student union used hashtags such as #March4Nation and #IstandWithNationalism and asked students to join the march, reported India Today. Critical of Hooda, Gupta rubbished Hooda’s claim that Kaur was a “poor girl”, defending her in the following words: “She’s no poor girl or “pawn”. Among other trolls, noted journalists like Shekhar Gupta, Nidhi Razdan and Barkha Dutt also slammed the actor for his comments and even got into a “discussion” with them on Twitter. His tweet was followed up by further retweets with hashtag of #BharatJaisiJagahNahi which was also advocated by Sehwag in his post. Tagging both, Gupta expressed his disappointment on their views, “Sad, from you, Viru & Randeep, big-hearted stars”. India never attacked anyone but a weak India was always invaded, ‘ the minister tweeted, while a lawmaker from his party posted a meme, comparing her to Dawood Ibrahim. A friend of Gurmehar Kaur said that she was scared and was leaving Delhi. The actor then tried to calm the situation, asking everyone to “not politicise the young girl’s thoughts”.

“I have been through a lot and this is all my 20 year self could take”, she posted.

Already under fire for speaking up against ABVP, social media was quick to jump on her again.

Gurmehar posted a picture of herself holding a placard that said, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him”.