Some students were injured at the Jawaharlal Nehru University as a clash broke out between two groups over selection of election committee members at the School of Languages on Friday night.
An official of the university said some students have been admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital.
In a video, a man is seen thrashing students with a stick while in another, a person is seen throwing a bicycle on students.
Other purported videos also showed individuals being mobbed and beaten up by a group even as security personnel of the university tried to rescue them.
According to the DSF student organization, as soon as the GBM meeting ended and EC members were elected, Kanhaiya Kumar, ABVP, and their associates attacked other students and activists.
On the contrary, certain students who support the Left have accused the JNU administration and security of permitting ABVP supporters to seize control of the entire campus. They claim that these individuals are granted permission to engage in violence whenever and wherever they please, be it during GBMs, classes, or in the hostels. This pattern of impunity needs to be brought to an end.
What ABVP said?
ABVP JNU president Umesh Chandra Ajmeera told ANI, "...Left students were attempting to rig the election process. The students of the School of Language raised an objection...The entire process was halted for more than 3-4 hours...When the process was reconvened half an hour later, Aishe Ghosh (JNU president) announced four communist names and said that they had been elected. The workers demanded the names be disclosed and the selection process. Danish (AISF member) said that not four but only two old members have been chosen again. Aishe and Danish said contradictory things. Students were raising objections...Demands were being made to disclose the names, withdraw those names, and have selection through a free and fair process. The Left students started heckling amid this and attacked students by using 'dafli' as weapons...More than 200 Left students attacked the 4-5 workers who were there...This is not new..."
What AISA said?
Speaking on the incident, the AISA JNU vice president told ANI,"First of all, this was not a clash. This is a one-sided attack, a one-sided assault...Every school has been conducting a General Body Meeting (GBM) since the last two weeks, The last GBM was yesterday. The election body of School Language was supposed to be elected yesterday. Four names were elected but the ABVP hijacked the entire process. When it resumed and the process concluded...we came to know that they had surrounded Danish (AISA) and were not letting him leave. We tried to speak with them but they didn't listen to us and started to launch an attack with sticks...They also hit me on my head...They do this under the protection of VC and the Police."
Students from both the ABVP and Left groups have filed police complaint against each other. The police are aware of information about three students sustaining injuries during the clash last night.
(With Inputs from agencies)
