ABVP and Student Union students scuffle over Chhatrapati Shivaji. Watch video

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad i.e. ABVP and leftist students again came face to face for insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji. The ABVP has accused Left organizations of the melee. 

The Ruckus 

ABVP accused the Left-backed students of demolishing the portrait of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his birth anniversary at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), while JNU Students’ Union alleged that ABVP activists attacked some students after a march who were seeking justice for an IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki who allegedly died by suicide recently. However, ABVP has denied it.

The truth behind the ruckus

ANI quoted ABVP JNU secretary Umesh Chandra Ajmera as saying, “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.” He also said that those involved in the incident were illegal workers and had entered the college premises without permission.