As part of the conspiracy against social justice, on the night of February 22, ABVP goons unleashed brutal violence on peacefully protesting JNU students. Bricks and iron rods were used to carry out the attack. The assault took place soon after the massive Samta (Equity) March held on campus in the evening, which demanded the resignation of the casteist JNU VC, opposed the rustication of JNUSU office-bearers and the former president, and called for the implementation of UGC Equity Rules.
The attack on JNU students by Manuvadi-Sanghi forces is part of a larger conspiracy unfolding across campuses, as seen in Delhi University and elsewhere in the country, where students are uniting and rising in support of implementing UGC Equity Rules on the lines of the Rohith Act.
The JNU Equity March strongly condemned the casteist and racist remarks of JNU VC Shanti Shri Dhulipudi Pandit, who dismissed the UGC regulations as “irrational” and “unnecessary” and said that Dalits and Blacks are “drugged” with “permanent victimhood,” brazenly insulting the struggles of oppressed communities. Thousands of JNU students joined the march, rejecting the VC’s blatant casteism and demanding her immediate resignation.
Unable to crush the resolve of JNU students, the Sangh Brigade resorted to its age-old tactic of violence. When hundreds of students gathered at the SL–SIS lawn, the ABVP unleashed brutal late-night attacks. Repeat offenders and well-known campus goons of the ABVP hurled bricks and stones at the encampment site, where the JNUSU office-bearers and the former JNUSU President were protesting their unjust rustication along with hundreds of students.
