Members of the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU), led by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), took out a ‘tiranga march’ from Ramjas College to the Vivekanand Statue at Arts Faculty here on Monday.
The students marched with a 108-foot ‘Tiranga’ and chanted ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ while vowing to keep the campus free from ‘anti-national’ elements.
Umar Khalid slammed
They also launched a tirade against JNU research scholar Umar Khalid, who was booked for sedition last year. The ABVP appealed to DU students to continue to support DUSU against ‘secessionist communists’ and save the character of the university.
DUSU president Amit Tanwar said that it was the students of Ramjas College who had kept anti-national elements away from the campus. He appealed to other students to also keep their colleges free from such programmes.
They said the aim of the anti-national communists was to “divide India, to create discontent against United India and to compromise the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India”.
Another protest
Rashtrawadi Shikshak Sangh, an RSS-affiliated teachers’ body, also staged a protest at Arts Faculty on Monday, demanding a “check on abuse of the freedom of speech and expression by the Left groups”.
