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Call for nationwide college bandh

NEW DELHI: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Friday gave a call for a nationwide college bandh on November 12 to protest against Bangladeshi infiltrators perpetrating terror activities in the country.

Expressing concern over Bangladeshi infiltration, ABVP national general secretary Suresh Bhatt said his organisation was working towards spreading awareness on this “national issue.”

“The names of illegal Bangladeshi migrants have been incorporated in the voters’ list and ration card and they are being treated as Indian nationals. We want the government to detect these infiltrators, delete their names from these lists and deport them back to their country,” he told reporters at a press conference on Friday.

“There is evidence to show that the Bangladesh-based terrorist organisation, Harkat-ul Jihad-e-Islami, has been responsible for different serial bomb blasts across the country. We have done a survey near the border area as per which there are roughly 3.5 crore Bangladeshi immigrants in India who are now posing a serious challenge to our sovereignty,” Mr. Bhatt alleged.

ABVP national executive member Vikas Dahiya said the outfit has contacted several north-eastern students’ unions in Delhi University urging them to extend their support to the bandh.

Talking about Thursday’s incident of vandalism at the Arts Faculty building, the ABVP activists maintained that the protester who spat on S. A. R. Geelani at the seminar was not from their organisation.

The ABVP also alleged that there were many “outsiders” at the seminar who started manhandling its activists.

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