In keeping with JNUSU Joint Secretary Vaibhav Meena, the Jawaharlal Nehru College College students' Union (JNUSU) had referred to as for a symbolic ‘Ravan Dahan' at Sabarmati, concentrating on what they described as “Naxal-like forces.”
Meena claimed that effigies and photographs of people with alleged Naxal ideologies, together with Afzal Guru, Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, G Sai Baba, and Charu Majumdar, have been burned in the course of the occasion.
“At present, on Vijayadashami, JNUSU had given a name that we'd carry out the ‘dahan' of Naxal-like Ravan, of naxal forces. The nine-day Durga Puja of Navratri can also be noticed at JNU. Immersion of the idol is completed on Vijayadashami. So, a ‘Shobha Yatra' was additionally being taken out. First, ‘Ravan Dahan' was completed at Sabarmati with photographs of all Naxal leaders, and people with Naxal ideology like Afzal Guru, Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, G Sai Baba, Charu Majumdar,” he stated.
He additional acknowledged that whereas the ‘Shobha Yatra' was being carried out throughout the campus, members of Left-affiliated teams, stationed at Sabarmati Tea Level for a separate effigy-burning occasion, disrupted the procession by hurling sneakers and slippers at members.
“When Shobha Yatra was being taken out across the campus, Left events have been current at Sabarmati Tea Level as they'd organised an effigy burning there. They wish to trigger disturbance within the Shobha Yatra. That they had modified their venue, after which they got here to Sabarmati Tea Level. When our Shobha Yatra reached there, the Leftists hurled sneakers and slippers on the Shobha Yatra. College students within the Yatra suffered accidents. We'll go to the Police with our criticism,” he added. On the incident, JNUSU President Nitish Kumar alleged that the conflict stemmed from a provocative poster circulated by the opposite group, saying a ‘Ravan Dahan' that portrayed former JNU college students Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, recognized for his or her activism, as Ravan. “Round 9-10 am immediately, a poster began circulating in our teams, the place they portrayed that they're going to do ‘Ravan Dahan'. Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who have been college students of this campus and who had propelled a motion to guard the citizenship of this nation, have been portrayed as Ravan. Resisting that, we gave a name from JNUSU that they can't do that and that it's fallacious. They aren't burning the effigy of Godse. However makes an attempt have been being made to burn effigies of the Structure and human rights defenders. Our protest was ongoing at Sabarmati Tea Level,” he stated.
He additional added, “In the meantime, Durga visarjan from their aspect was being completed. They stopped their DJ for half an hour and raised slogans of ‘Jai Sri Ram' and Yogi ji's bulldozer justice. They then began waving slippers. We shaped a human chain to cease violence. However they tried for half an hour to stoke violence there. Later, they left.”
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