Administration works in connivance with goons, claims CPI on JNU violence

Alleging complicity, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded action against the JNU administration. CPI has claimed that the administration was working hand in glove with the attackers in order to terrorise the students. On Sunday night more than 50 masked people vandalised the JNU campus and attacked the students with iron roads and other sharp weapons.

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday alleged that the administration and Delhi police have been working in tandem to run a reign of terror at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

The party even demanded that the administration should be made accountable for the violence.

"This is a fascist way to run terror where the administration works in tandem with the attackers," senior CPI leader Dr BK Kango told ETV Bharat.Reacting over the JNU violence that took place at the University campus on Sunday night, Kango accused Delhi police of not taking any action against the attackers."There was tension in JNU for the last 2-3 months. The campus was in strict monitoring of Delhi police. How come they did not see the attackers who were vandalizing in campus with iron roads and other sharp weapons," said Kango.He said that two senior leaders D Raja and Yogendra Yadav were heckled in front of the JNU gate last night.

"They went to visit the area after getting calls from many professors. But the moment they reached there people in the area started shouting on them to go back...both the leaders were heckled by the agitators," said Kango.

"Since 2019, the BJP government is trying to defame JNU by this or that means...in fact, they are trying to shut down JNU for a long time," said Kango.

On Sunday night more than 50 masked people vandalised the JNU campus and attacked the students with iron roads and other sharp weapons. Many of the students were seriously injured and they were admitted to different hospitals in Delhi.

Following the incident mud-slinging has begun between two different student bodies namely SFI (Affiliated to Left-wing parties) and ABVP (Affiliated to right-wing parties).

Both the student bodies have been accusing each other of carrying out the Sunday violence.

"The left student leader of JNU was attacked and seriously injured, and they (ABVP) are claiming SFI carried the violence," quipped Kango.