Congress Seeks Ban On RSS-ABVP In Educational Institutions

New Delhi, October 17: The Congress has demanded that RSS and ABVP be banned from educational institutions for promoting a divisive ideology. It has also demanded strict action against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists for trying to film the girl students while they were changing their costumes in a Government College of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here today, the AIMC president Alka Lamba and the NSUI president Varun Choudhary stated that the accused ABVP activists were being defended by the BJP leaders, which was quite shameful.

Ms Lamba asserted that they will not allow the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh to let these ABVP activists go scot-free. They cannot be allowed to play with the dignity and honour of the girls, she added. She also referred to the reported sexual assault on a girl student in the South Asian University in Delhi and sought accountability from Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.

Speaking on the occasion, NSUI president Varun Choudhary demanded that RSS and ABVP must be banned in the educational institutions as they were spreading divisive ideology there. He also demanded that Deepika Jha, an ABVP leader (and DUSU joint secretary), be rusticated for slapping a professor of one of the affiliated colleges of Delhi University.

Referring to the RSS activities, he cited an incident in Kerala where an IT professional had committed suicide after revealing how he had been sexually assaulted and exploited for several years in the RSS shakhas and training camps.

The NSUI president alleged that the NSUI activists were being victimised, intimidated and persecuted in the BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh simply for opposing the divisive ideology of the RSS in educational institutions.