New Delhi: Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, allegedly attacked an activist of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Thursday at Delhi University’s Satyawati College.
Kawalpreet Kaur said that she was targeted while speaking at a talk on digital safety, which was organised by Google and The People TV.
“When the talk was about to get over, many ABVP activists gathered in the auditorium and started disrupting the event,” Ms Kaur claimed. “They mishandled the professors and were after me, and when the police came to my rescue, they asked them, ‘Where are you taking her? We will take her life.’”
The ABVP has dismissed the allegations levelled by Ms Kaur, accusing her instead of “trying to instigate” students. “I had gone to Satyawati College this morning as a speaker for a talk on Digital Safety conducted by Google. The group also threatened to burn down the auditorium hosting the event if she was not sent out of the venue,” Ms Kaur claimed.
Meanwhile, denying the charges made by Ms Kaur, college principal Dr. Manjula Dass said, “All the allegations made by her are baseless. None of the students neither assaulted her nor manhandled her. The students did not even touch her.”
While ABVP state executive member Shakti Singh said, “These are nothing a bundle of lies. Ms Kaur was not even touched by anyone. In fact, she pushed and verbally abused the students of Satyawati College. She was constantly trying to instigate the male students. We have video evidences which clearly show how violent she had become. She had to be taken out of the auditorium by the police and college security guards.”
Ms Kaur filed a complaint at the Bharat Nagar Police Station.
Mr Singh added, “Ms Kaur’s allegations have been exposed once again a few months after her entry was banned in the college for abusing the students there. This is the level of politics they are playing risking the future of students.”
