A scuffle broke out Tuesday evening at Jamia Millia Islamia when a bunch of scholars have been holding Diwali celebrations on the campus.
Chatting with The Indian Specific, Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP Southeast, mentioned, “The incident occurred round 7:30-8 pm close to gate 7. A gaggle of scholars affiliated with the ABVP have been placing up diyas and making rangolis for Diwali, which displeased one other group of scholars. The opposite group wrecked the decorations, which led to a scuffle. Either side engaged in sloganeering. Police have been deployed to keep up the peace; they’re stationed there for the evening as a precautionary measure. College students have been ordered to disperse and the gang left by 9 pm.”
The Indian Specific reached out to officers at JMI concerning the incident however didn’t obtain a response.
Completely different scholar teams had totally different variations of what allegedly transpired.
“The occasion was held by a scholar group referred to as Yuva, which organised a rangoli competitors. The permission to carry it contained in the campus was until 6 pm, however the occasion went on till submit 7 pm, and I may see 8-10 outsiders, together with from the ABVP, enter the campus and chant slogans. They instigated college students of Jamia, calling them ‘outsiders’, which is when the scuffle broke out,” claimed Mohammad Alfouz, the nationwide secretary of a scholar outfit referred to as Fraternity Motion.
In an announcement Tuesday, the JMI unit of the Pupil Federation of India claimed that “ABVP, below the guise of Diwali celebrations, unleashed an assault on college students”. The JMI unit of the Congress-backed NSUI additionally blamed the “shameful act of violence by ABVP goons on our campus”.
Responding to the allegations, ABVP’s nationwide media convenor Ashutosh Singh mentioned, “ABVP was not liable for any ruckus on Jamia’s campus. There have been some outsiders who entered the campus and began chatting slogans associated to Palestine, which instigated the ruckus.”
