Scuffle breaks out at JNU

New Delhi: A heated argument broke out between two groups of students' union members in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi on Thursday. The clash was reported between the members of All India Students Association (AISA) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The scuffle between the two groups allegedly broke out during a seminar on Article 370 where Union Minister Jitendra Singh was addressing the students. Students from left and right-wing resorted to sloganeering during Singh's speech.

The ABVP activists countered the sloganeering with "Kashmir se Kanyakumari, Bharat Mata ek Hamari" while the pro-Kashmir slogans were being chanted by AISA students. But some students feel it was a protest by general students and not some organisation. A member of Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students' Organisation, Apeksha Priyadarshini, said, "Some students came to protest with placards, they were not affiliated with any specific organisation. Some of them even got bruised during the chaos but no serious injury."

Jitendra Singh was invited to the varsity for a talk to deliver a lecture on 'Abrogation of Article 370: Peace, Stability and Development in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh'. ABVP is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). While AISA is a left -wing student organisation. On August 5, the government scrapped the provisions under Article 370 that gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).