DU protests : Kanhaiya, Umar, Najeeb's mother join anti-ABVP march

Protests in Delhi refuse to die down as Delhi University students under banner of Left Wing bodies are holding another march in the Capital. Students led by AISA are marching from Mandi House to Parliament asserting their academic freedom and right to dissent and against alleged hooliganism by ABVP members.

Twelve days after student clashes shook Delhi University's Ramjas college, student bodies have been locked in a tussle of protests with RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Viyarthi Parishad and Delhi University Student's Union, on one hand, and students under Left Wing student organisations like AISA and SFI on the other.

The ABVP had, on Thursday organised a 'Save DU march' which was followed by an SFI march on Friday. Both the



sides had also staged protest on February 28 - ABVP at North Campus and other student bodies at ITO.

Trouble had started at Delhi University over invitation to Umar Khalid, a JNU student facing sedition charges. ABVP's objection resulted in Ramjas college cancelling the invitation. The matter escalated after a clash between students at the college campus following which the literary festival at Ramjas was cancelled. DU students along with Left Wing student bodies held a protest against alleged arm-twisting by ABVP. Clashes again broke out at the march with reports of students and teachers being roughed up by ABVP members.

Both the groups have since then taken out series of protests calling for action against each other.