Aranya Shankar

While BJP candidate Kapil Mishra’s tweets were pulled down on directions of the Election Commission (EC), they are not the only social media posts the Delhi Chief Electoral Office (CEO) has found problematic.

A notice signed by the principal said, “Due to unavoidable circumstances, the programme scheduled today, being organised by the North East Cell, is hereby cancelled.”

The letter, dated January 16, was sent to Pawan Diwan, Under Secretary, EC. Along with the letter, the CEO office attached three videos containing the digital content, which includes seven videos by the BJP, three videos and a post by the Congress, and two videos and one post by AAP.

Delhi CEO Ranbir Singh said he had received some concerns from the school teachers’ association about women staying overnight. A large number of teachers are involved in poll duty.

“I’ve learnt from friends and witnessed through public channels with alarm, and now with disgust, how your handling of situations as JNU’s administrative and academic head led to its steady deterioration, paving the way to its intellectual disintegration,” wrote Bhaduri, who taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning.

Three hours after Sneha says she first saw the mob, masked men and women returned, their numbers having swelled.

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JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh said she had not been informed of any such meeting. ABVP also said the V-C had not met injured students from their organisation.

The Delhi Police had written to Registrar Pramod Kumar on January 7, saying this should be done “on top priority”. On January 10, the Dean of Students Welfare (DSW) sent a circular in this regard to all senior wardens.

Besides Ghosh, others named in the attack are Dolan Samanta, Sucheta Talukdar and Chunchun Yadav — all from AISA. Others include Pankaj Mishra, a student of Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health; Vaskar Vijay Mech from the School of Arts and Aesthetics; and Priya Ranjan from the School of Languages.

The nearly 2,000-strong crowd, comprising teachers, students and political leaders such as Sitaram Yechury, Sharad Yadav, Manoj Jha, D Raja, Brinda Karat and Kiran Walia, marched to the National Archives — where they were stopped by police barricades.

While she did not address the gathering, Deepika Padukone, dressed in a black turtleneck, told JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh that she was “proud” of her, and asked her to “take care”.

The FIR states that following this, 20 students, including Ghosh, “indulged in physical violence, pushed lady guards, verbally abused and threatened them with dire consequences if they opened lock of CIS door. Few guards were beaten up”.

While he said his “heart goes out” to all the injured, on the issue of providing medical assistance, Kumar said the university health centre had free medicines.

Former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav, CPI-ML (Liberation) leader Kavita Krishnan and others spoke at the event.

The police, which came under fire for storming the Jamia Millia Islamia campus and targeting students inside the library last month, remained silent on how roughly 100 people were able to run riot inside the JNU campus for close to three hours despite the first phone call to the police control room being made at 4.57 pm Sunday.

At the New Transit House, which has 25 homes of faculty members, teachers said the “intimidation and violence” began around 7.30 pm-8 pm.

The over 30 injured students and teachers, meanwhile, said the V-C had not reached out to check on them. The V-C also stressed on how the administration would “ensure that their winter semester registration will take place without any hindrance”.

Ghosh told The Indian Express that she saw the attack on her and the university as “nothing but an attempt to break the movement against fee hike, which has been peacefully on for almost 70 days”.