AISA DU president attacked, ABVP denies involvement
New Delhi: Delhi University AISA president Kawalpreet Kaur has accused Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers slapped and harassed her when she went to Kirori Mal college. Meanwhile, her friends got brutally assaulted by a group of student reportedly belonging to saffron-affiliated student wing.
Kaur, in her complaint, said: "On Friday when I along with my two friends went to Kirori Mal College for meeting a professor, I faced shameful incident of violence against me. Over there, we saw our friends were campaigning in the college and we joined them. We witnessed that we were being followed by four people from ABVP, who were constantly commenting on us and threatening us to move out of the college."
In her complaint, she said that when she asked them not to do so, they started hurling abuses at her and humiliated her in front of her friends. Meanwhile, they used derogatory and shameful words for her which she could not spell out.
"It made me feel very humiliated and provoked me so much that my natural response was to slap him which I did. Immediately, without losing a second, the guy slapped me so tightly that I lost my balance for seconds and I had tears in my eyes," Kanwalpreet said.
Furthermore, the complaint reads that after this the guy ran away and when my friend Dhiraj followed to get hold of him, he was surrounded by at least 12-15 ABVP members and brutally assaulted until a professor stopped them and rescued Dhiraj.
They were saying that Dhiraj had said that "Hindustan Murdabad" that's why he deserves this and so does his friends. They also said that these people are urban Naxals. "I just want to say to everyone that all these attacks won't put us down. We will fight the humiliation and wouldn't be cowed down by these attacks. I was told later that they were Mohit Dahiya, Sandeep Sharma and others are still unidentified," Kaur added.
However, Monika Choudhary, national media convener of ABVP said that Kaur went to KMC on Friday and over there she fell into an argument with a first-year student of KMC and not only this, she also verbally and physically assaulted him.
"He slapped her and this guy does not belong to ABVP. Moreover, Mohit Dahiya who is our unit president of KMC did not do anything still Kawalpreet with malafide intention of blaming ABVP and in order to harm our image is blaming Mohit Dahiya for this incident," Choudhary said. She also said that Kanwalpreet is doing this only to benefit from the situation and become famous as DUSU elections are near.
