AAP condemns ABVP attack on DU campus

The Aam Aadmi Party condemns the attack on the volunteers of the Chatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) by the top leadership of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in the Delhi University campus on Wednesday.

ABVP workers, led by their national leaders made repeated attempts to remove the helpdesk set-up by the CYSS volunteers outside the Daulat Ram College in the University’s North Campus.

They resorted to violence when the CYSS leaders requested them to desist from disturbing the peace in the campus. The attackers who beat up the volunteers and students were led by the ABVP national secretary.

It is shocking that the BJP’s student wing is resorting to physical violence and intimidation when the admissions process has just started.

The AAP demands that the DU administration should ensure peace in the university campus and elements trying to spread lawlessness need to be sternly dealt with.

The intolerance and hooliganism have no place in academic centres and it is the duty of the DU authorities to take all possible steps for restoring the University’s autonomy and foil any attempts of political interference on its campuses.

Coming shortly after the authorities flip-flops on the suspension of five officials on the issue of admission card of the union human resources development minister becoming public, these incidents of hooliganism by the ABVP workers is further showing the authorities in poor light.

It is high time that the DU authorities act swiftly to dispel any notion of their working under pressure to please the bosses of the current political establishment.