BJP blames Left for JNU violence, says ABVP cadres were thrashed

NEW DELHI: In an aggressive retaliation against the opposition's allegations, BJP on Monday dubbed the

violence on JNU campus

as the handiwork of Leftists, with party functionaries circulating video clippings to bring out the latter's alleged culpability for the violence.

"There is a motley group of Left-leaning activists drawn from art, literature and Bollywood, lapsed academicians and failed politicians, who can't win a municipal poll but are ideological mercenaries. Backed by opposition parties, they are the ones fomenting trouble on campuses," head of BJP's social media unit

Amit Malviya

said.

Malviya released video clippings, one of which showed purported efforts to prevent registrations for the semester exams.

A group of 'masked men' are seen standing as a man instructs agroup of women to keep silent. 'Left Unity', a coalition of students' bodies aligned with Left, has called for boycott of semester tests as part of the campaign to revise fees.

"The masked revolution of JNU unmasked," Malviya tweeted. "Remember, a few days ago, there were tutorials by Left on how to use masks to avoid facial recognition? AISA did this last time as well when they didn't let an ambulance reach a professor, who was critical. And today again. What makes the Left so barbaric and inhuman?" he tweeted.

Condemning the incident, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said Congress, Left and AAP were inciting violence, specially on university campuses, which should be probed. Malviya re-tweeted several videos to prove his point. "JNU students union president Aishee Ghosh is seen with masked men inside JNU," he said as he posted a video purportedly of Ghosh with masked men. Ghosh was hurt in the violence.

In another video shared by him, students purportedly belonging to ABVP are assaulted by a group for facilitating the registration process. "Students associated with Left parties bashed up ABVP members when they were facilitating admission process. Students from Left parties wanted to cancel the admission process," he said.

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