ABVP, SFI clash at Sikar college, lathicharge by cops

JAIPUR: The newly-elected Rajasthan University Students Union (RUSU) president, Manish Yadav, had to run away from Sri Kalyan Degree College in Sikarbecause of Students Federation of India (SFI) activists' opposition to his address on Wednesday.
The ABVP activists had invited Yadav to address youths on "commercialisation of education under UPA-2". His visit was resented by SFI activists, student wing of the Left parties, as their leaders were not invited.
The situation turned ugly when ABVP activist threatened SFI members and told them to leave the venue. This sparked verbal spat followed by a clash between students. The police made a lathicharge to disperse them.
Yadav reportedly rushed to the principal's office. The SFI activist gathered outside and asked the principal to come out and talk to them.
Yadav held a press conference and alleged the SFI were provoking ABVP workers. "It was a planned attack on our activists. They are scared of our increasing popularity in the Leftist stronghold district," said Yadav.
The police made a lathicharge outside the Shiksha Sankul on ABVP activists for forcibly entering the state education office. Two activists were reportedly injured. One hundred and fifty ABVP activists demontrated outside the Sankul against the UPA-2 policy on education. The activists were furious when they were not allowed by the police to hand over a memorandum to the education minister.
The Rajasthan University was also on boil following a case registered by Gandhi Nagar police against the Rajasthan University Students Union general secretary, Narsee Kirad and three others for disrupting official work recently. A group of students gathered at the VC secretariat to hand over the memorandum to the VC to intervene and request the police to take the case back.
Kirad said during a protest in the university some miscreants damaged windowpanes of two police vans two months ago. "They have woken up after two months to level charges against us," said Kirad.