18 ABVP members held for vandalism at Azim Premji University to protest ‘anti-national’ event
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Eighteen members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad were taken into custody on Tuesday after they organised a protest against an “anti-national” event at the Azim Premji University in Bengaluru and allegedly vandalised property, The Indian Express reported.
The ABVP, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, alleged that the university facilitated an event organised by a student group that depicted the Indian Army in a poor light and included content that it described as “anti-national”, The Hindu reported.
The RSS is the parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The event was being conducted to discuss the Kunan Poshpora incident, The New Indian Express reported. It pertains to allegations of mass rape by security personnel in two villages of Kashmir in February 1991.
Azim Premji University said in a statement that it had “not authorised any event of this nature”, ANI reported.
Ahead of their protest, the ABVP had in a press release condemned the “anti-national, Kashmir separatist events and sessions against the Indian Army”, The Indian Express reported.
“Azim Premji University has been a centre for sessions against the sovereignty and integrity of our nation, Kashmir separatism and against the armed forces of our nation,” the newspaper quoted the ABVP as having alleged.
During the protest, ABVP members allegedly smeared the university’s signage with black ink, The Indian Express reported. Some of them entered the campus and spray-painted signboards and...