'They grabbed her by throat': AISA urges students to stand against 'ABVP goons' in JNUSU election

After the members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) allegedly disrupted the General Body Meetings (GBMs) at JNU ahead of the upcoming Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union elections, the All India Students’ Association has urged students to stand against the hooliganism and ensure the ABVP are defeated in the elections.

The ABVP goons allegedly disrupted the GBMs in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) and School of International Studies (SIS), leading to violent altercations and injuries among students, several of whom were hospitalised, according to an official statement.

“In today's GBM at SSS, ABVP hooligans began heckling councillors who were presenting their work reports and snatched a phone. When students began to question, they began beating students who were present in the GBM,” the official statement by AISA.

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“They grabbed a woman student by her throat and beat several others, resulting in serious injuries. The injured students are being treated at Safdarjung Hospital,” it added.

The association also claimed that the ABVP joint secretary was absent throughout his tenure, and the ABVP has not taken up a single pro-student issue. The party has been vested in corporate interest and due to which, their defeat is guaranteed this year, the AISA said.

Hence, this is the reason they are resorting to violence to disrupt the electoral process, it added.

“Time and again, ABVP has been obstructing democratic processes, to the extent that Election Commission members could not be elected in the SIS GBM yesterday. Whether vote chori, disenfranchising lakhs of people, and reducing them to second class citizens, RSS-BJP-ABVP's fascist assertion on constitutional rights and democracy continues unabated,” the AISA said.