Ramjas College: Delhi Police register rioting case after ABVP-AISA clash

The ABVP has been, and will likely continue to be, a recruiting ground for the BJP. He faced a volley of tough questions from the protesting students, who alleged that the local police in North Delhi was “hand-in-glove” with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and not registering FIR against ABVP members.

To address the protesting students, special commissioner of police (law and order) S.B.K. Singh came face to face with them.

While Khalid was among the students charged with sedition in connection with an event at JNU past year where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised, Shehla was instrumental in the movement against the students’ arrest. “I am too scared to step out”, said a DU student on the condition of anonymity.

He also said that the incident was being played out as a clash between AISA and ABVP in the media, when in fact it was the ABVP cadres who had beat up students outside the college. I resisted but when I saw the intensity with which they were beating people, I stepped back to ensure my safety but kept on making a video using my phone.

Shehla also alleged that “police joined the ABVP goons in attacking me”.

The situation was sparked after a planned protest march by certain students to the Maurice Nagar police station had been disallowed.

Finally, the Commissioner came out, after the students protested outside the headquarters for a few hours demanding to speak with him. The police had tried to calm the crowd down but after the ABVP members reportedly started clashing with the police.

We chose to gather at Maurice Nagar police station, since the police was refusing to file a FIR and also discouraging us from doing so, saying that if we filed a FIR, so would ABVP.

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) also expressed anger and anguish over the attacks on journalists, teachers and students in Delhi University.

Amnesty International India-chapter has said that clashes at Ramjas College in New Delhi illustrated the growing threat to freedom of expression on Indian university campuses.

But major issue which remained unanswered is why these self-proclaimed nationalist want to rein the country without any official position in hand. Tension continued to simmer across Delhi University’s North Campus with students’ groups holding protests against police “high-handedness” during the violent clashes even as three policemen were suspended for “unprofessional” conduct. It has been reported that the right wing students’ party has resorted to throwing stones. We need to understand these affiliations with political parties are actual cause of problems in student politics.

According to them, a minor issue over wording a song resulted in minor exchange of words between two groups of students on February 21 when they were returning from Sanasar in Samba district where they had gone on a picnic.