On the night of 28th October, ABVP disrupted the UGBM discussion on ICC/GSCASH in JNU and just hours prior was also involved in organising an event that erupted into intoxication, vandalism, harassment and animal cruelty in Ambedkar University Delhi's Kashmere Gate Campus. In both these campuses ABVP has had a long history of violence and standing as a wall against the cause of gender justice. Again and again events organised by ABVP in AUD have been hotbeds of gender violence and Hooliganism on campus, despite which they get a free hand and support from the administration.
Similarly in JNU as well, it has become a pattern for them to disrupt all democratic procedures by shouting, causing ruckus and raising casteist and communal slogans. When criticised, the ABVP very conveniently takes up the cloak of religion to justify their actions. These incidents are not isolated but a product of the well organised nexus between the ABVP and the Adminstration where these hooligans are given a free hand to bring disorder, chaos and violence as they want on the campus. In JNU's UGBM we saw how members of ABVP made Casteist and Islamophobic remarks against students and JNUSU Office Bearers.
Just a few days ago, on the evening of 22nd October 2024 in an incident which echoes the same communal and violent attitude ABVP, its members including DUSU candidate Bhanu Pratap Singh, shouted religious slogans in Jamia Millia Islamia. The bursting of crackers was accompanied by unruly behaviour targeted at Muslim students, especially women. The event was followed by several BJP IT Cell members trolling students with mainstream media's Islamophobic coverage of the incident putting the blame entirely on the Muslim students and questioning the existence of Jamia as a minority institution!
The DUSU result declaration has also been postponed and DU brought into infamy as a result of ABVP's Money and Muscle politics which brings violence and defacement to our campuses and the city. The Delhi High Court's order specifically takes ABVP candidates and leaders by name as being in the lead of this campaign of waste and violence. The ABVP barging into Miranda House and other women's colleges in the last two elections was also highlighted by the court and exposes the repeated attacks on gender justice by this Violence Parishad.
These incidents across universities of Delhi expose the need for building a radical progressive movement against the communal fascist ideology of the RSS and its student wing. We must resist the attack of Hindutva on social and gender justice and and its agenda to dismantly the secular and democratic ethos of our country.
We stand in solidarity with the students who have faced these recent attacks and call for immediate action against these goons in the guise of students!
- All India Students’ Association (AISA) Statement Dated October 30, 2024
