Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday congratulated the newly-elected JNUSU president N Sai Balaji and the varsity students for defeating the right wing ABVP in the recent elections.
Kejriwal told Balaji to keep the struggle on and stay united.
In a meeting with Balaji at his Civil Lines residence, Kejriwal is learnt to have accused the Modi government of “dictatorship” when he said the current regime at the Centre is drawing inspiration from the infamous leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler.
“The present regime is taking inspiration from Hitler and trying to muzzle and annihilate democracy,” the Delhi CM is said to have alleged.
He congratulated the JNU students for our commanding victory and trouncing of ABVP in JNUSU elections, said Balaji.
Balaji apprised the Delhi chief minister about the prevailing situation on the JNU campus.
Kejriwal was briefed about the ABVP’s alleged “rising terror and violence” in JNU on students and “inaction” of JNU VC against all those involved.
The JNU administration is instead accused of “shielding” the students of the right wing in the matter of violence on campus, Balaji alleged.
“Met him and discussed in detail how we are being attacked and so on. How threats were given in police station, how lynch mobs were baiting for blood and how an environment of fear is being perpetuated,” alleged the new JNUSU president.
“He (Delhi CM) felt inspired when I told him how we are resisting this regime, violence and Section 144 rules through massive unity, night vigils, protests, peace marches and non-cooperation,” Balaji said adding that the Delhi chief minister asked the JNU students to keep their “fight on and be united”.
On the other side, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s student wing, the ABVP, has expressed apprehensions of “more attacks” on its members demanding action against the Left-associated members who allegedly assaulted them by the JNU administration.
The ABVP members accused the members of All India Students’ Association and Students’ Federation of India of badly injuring its students a day after the United Left swept the JNUSU’s central panel on September 16.
While the JNU administration expressed “anguish” over the episodes of violence on the campus since September 15 and appealed all to maintain harmony and peace on the campus.
The varsity has already banned rallies and processions on the campus assuring all steps have been taken to ensure normalcy in the university.
On its part, the JNUSU also demanded immediate action against the ABVP members said to be involved in campus violence and called the varsity’s ban nothing short of an “administrative clampdown” saying the JNU VC has “imposed an emergency” on the campus.
