ABVP, JNUSU trade blame over violence on JNU campus
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- Published: January 5, 2020 21:54
New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Jawaharlal University Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Sunday jumped to trade blame after a masked mob of goons entered the campus premises and assaulted several students.
Terming the attack in JNU as “undeclared emergency”, ABVP shared a video of its national general secretary Nidhi Tripathi.
“It is unfortunate that for the past two months, Naxals have halted the academic process. They stopped the registration for papers. When the students demanded to register, they entered the hostels and assaulted them,” Tripathi said in the video message.
Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union (JNUSU) President Aishe Ghosh at JNU: I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I have been bleeding. I was brutally beaten up. pic.twitter.com/YX9E1zGTcC
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2020
In the tweet, ABVP claimed that the attack was organised “by the leftist goons of SFI, AISA and DSF on ABVP karyakartas and students in JNU.”
JNUSU, on the other hand, accused the JNU unit of ABVP of the attack.
#WATCH Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president & students attacked by people wearing masks on campus. ‘What is this? Who are you? Step back, Who are you trying to threaten?… ABVP go back,’ can be heard in video. (note: abusive language) pic.twitter.com/gYqBOmA37c
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2020
“AVBPJNU, you have attacked your own university, your professors and your classmates. By encouraging ABVP terrorists to enter the campus, by giving them information to help them single out Union Representatives, you have enabled terrorists like your ideological predecessors,” JNUSU said in a tweet.
The JNUSU President was singled out and hit on her head by men who entered the university campus with the blessing of the guards, the administration and the Police. We need help. JNU is under attack. Indian Students are under attack. #SOSJNU #EmergencyinJNU https://t.co/HV6oesKMMn
— JNUSU (@JNUSUofficial) January 5, 2020
“The ABVP attackers have entered Koyna Hostel. This is an all-female hostel. The women, and mess workers, are terrified. The terrorists are trying to break the doors,” JNUSU added in another tweet.
A masked mob on Sunday entered the university campus and assaulted several students and professors with sticks and rods.
AIIMS Trauma Centre official: 18 people from Jawaharlal Nehru University (#JNU) have come to AIIMS Trauma Centre with complaints of bleeding in head, abrasions among others. Investigations are underway #Delhi https://t.co/FJQtQuQ1eo pic.twitter.com/BMhz09lXpl
— ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2020
“I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I am bleeding. I was brutally beaten up,” JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh told reporters. She has been admitted to the AIIMS here for treatment.
Several other students were also injured in the incident.
In a video of the incident, a group of goons with their faces covered can be seen assaulting students with wooden sticks and rods. (ANI)