Referring a leftist student body as a terrorist organisation, ABVP, the student wing of ruling BJP, on Wednesday filed an official complaint marked to the Delhi police, HRD Ministry and JNU administration, asking for strict action against individuals who attempted to hold an event on the occasion of Afzal Guru's hanging death anniversary.
ABVP members also filed a complaint with local police accusing of the same left wing student body of allegedly harassing them, prompting police to retrieve mobile phone recordings of a confrontation between student groups based in JNU.
A four member delegation of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which met with the JNU administration today, also demanded the administration record events the organised the student groups based in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
On Tuesday night a confrontation between students belonging to ABVP and Democratic Students Union took place within the campus. The confrontation happened after members of the ABVP protested outside the venue of a event organised against the 'judicial killing of Afzal Guru & Maqbool Bhat'.
"Such anti-national events will not be be tolerated. We welcome debate and discussion but we cannot stand by while violent slogans against India are being made. We have requested the management to record all such events in the future so as it serves as evidence."said Lalit Pandey ABVP Secretary (JNU).
The organisers said that the event was 'in solidarity with struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self determination'.
Speaking to dna Umar Khalid, a member of DSU said, "The permission to conduct the event was granted by the administration. However ABVP informed the university officials that we were organising a protest instead of the said event. ABVP then proceeded to create a ruckus at the venue."
Later JNU also formed an inquiry committee to investigate the incident. The JNU VC did not respond to dna when contacted on his mobile phone.
Meanwhile another event was organised by the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) at the Press Club of India. Professor SAR Geelani, who was acquitted in the 2001 Parliament attack case, moderated the event which saw Kashmiri students speaking on the hanging of Guru as well as Maqbool Bhat, who has been termed as one of the pioneers of the Right to Self Determination movement in Kashmir. The students also narrated their personal experiences from Kashmir.
"These meetings are organised to form a strategy on how to avoid miscarriage of justice in the future and not with an intent to seek revenge,"SAR Geelani said.
A research scholar who was one of the speakers at the event said, "Every year we commemorate and celebrate the martyrdom of Maqbool and Afzal. These two are among thousand other martyrs Kashmir had given in the way of independence." While Guru was hanged by for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack on February 2013, Bhat, the co-founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front was hanged in 1984 also in Tihar.
Following the talks the students raised pro-independence slogans and demanded that belongings of Guru be handed over to his family as his son had in a statement asked for the same.
