ABVP Holds ‘Save DU March’ Amidst Chants of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

ABVP has been demanding action against ‘anti-national elements’.

Students and ABVP supporters at the “Save DU” march. (Photo: The Quint)

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• ABVP held its “Save DU March” in north campus, Delhi University on Thurday
  
• Former DUSU president Satender Awana said that the march was against “anti-national” elements
  
• The ABVP suspended two of its members for attacking AISA supporters on 28 February
  
• It filed a complaint against individuals who harassed DU student Gurmehar Kaur
  

Updated at:2nd Mar, 2017 at 3:01 PM

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ABVP supporters gather for the “Save DU March” while raising slogans of “Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”.

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Security Beefed Up Ahead of ABVP March

Police personnel walk towads Arts Faculty where the march will begin. (Photo: The Quint)

Posters and banners for the march. (Photo: The Quint)

Updated at:2nd Mar, 2017 at 11:45 AM

RSS’ youth wing the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) will hold a “Save DU March” from Arts Faculty at 12 pm on Thursday.

The motive behind the march according to their Facebook page is “to join hands against the anti-national elements that try to hinder the peaceful atmosphere of our university” and against those “who talk about breaking the integrity of the country”.

The march comes a day after the ABVP staged a protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters demanding that a chargesheet be filed in last year's sedition case against three JNU students – Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya – for raising anti-India slogans.

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The ABVP also seems to be in damage control mode after it suspended two of its members for their act of “indiscipline” on Wednesday. They had allegedly attacked a group of AISA supporters outside SGTB Khalsa college on 28 February after the anti-ABVP march had ended.

They even filed a complaint at Maurice Nagar Police Station against those who harassed 20-year-old DU student Gurmehar Kaur on social media. Kaur was threatened after initiating a campaign against ABVP after its supporters objected to a seminar at Ramjas College where JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid were invited to speak.

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(With inputs from PTI and ANI)

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Updated at:2nd Mar, 2017 at 1:11 PM