Barabanki students’ protest: ABVP protests Rajbhar’s remarks, SP chief hits out at BJP for police action on students
After online videos showed Monday’s police lathicharge on demonstrators on the campus of Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the removal of the circle officer (city).
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OP RajbharABVP workers on Wednesday evening staged a protest and burnt effigies of minister and SBSP chief OP Rajbhar in Lucknow over his remarks in which he allegedly called the members of the RSS student wing “goondas” and justified police lathicharge on student protesters in Barabanki.
Earlier in the day, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav claimed that ruling BJP leaders are embroiled in internal power struggles at the cost of the youth, as he slammed the police action against students who were protesting over an alleged unrecognised law course at a private university in Barabanki.
After online videos showed Monday’s police lathicharge on demonstrators on the campus of Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the removal of the circle officer (city).
The protesting students have accused the university of jeopardising their future by enrolling them in a programme that did not have recognition from the Bar Council of India.
Sharing visuals on X, including one showing police thrashing students during a protest and images of BJP and Samajwadi Party workers clashing in Gorakhpur, Yadav accused the ruling party of “deceiving” the public with “staged” apologies and superficial gestures. “These BJP leaders first get their own people beaten up in disputes, then whisper apologies in their ears and apply a ‘superficial balm’ to deep wounds,” Yadav wrote in Hindi.
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