Outfits join hands against ABVP seminar at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University

Though its seminar titled ‘Rohith Vemula aur Kanhaiya Ka Sach’, proposed to be held on the university’s premises on March 16, the RSS’s student wing wants to “bring out the truth” in the matters involving Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad research scholar who committed suicide, and Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU’s students union president charged of sedition and currently out on bail.

“The aim of the seminar is to inform students about the facts that the media has not highlighted so far. We are not going to do anything wrong there,” CCSU students’ union president Sanjeet Singh Patel, who belongs to the ABVP, claimed.

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Assertions, however, have been made that the proposed seminar is the ABVP’s attempt to turn the university campus into a stronghold of a “particular political ideology”.

“This would not be tolerated at any cost. Members of the ABVP will not be allowed to enter the campus of any university here over matters involving Vemula or Kanhaiya. We will not allow the saffronisation of the campus anywhere in the state,” said Rajdeep Vikalp, an activist of the SP’s youth wing Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha and former president of the CCSU students’ union. The SYS has got support from Bhartiya Dalit Adhikar Manch, which termed both the ABVP and the BJP as “anti-Dalit”.