JNU Graffiti Row: ABVP Protests Defacement of Savarkar Portrait and Campus Walls

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A controversy has erupted at Jawaharlal Nehru University following allegations by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad regarding political graffiti on campus walls. The student organisation raised objections to slogans including 'Free Umar Khalid' and 'Long Live Naxalbari'. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad claimed left-wing outfits, particularly the All India Students' Association, defaced university walls and wrote objectionable text alongside a portrait of Veer Savarkar, disrupting the campus academic environment. The development follows a similar incident reported at Jamia Millia Islamia involving political graffiti.

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00:00And big news coming in amid the Jamia Graffiti Rao.

00:03The Jawaharlal Nehru University unit of the Akhil Bharati Vidyati Parishat

00:08has raised objections to slogans such as Free Umar Khalid and Long Live Naksal Badi

00:14being written on the walls of the university campus.

00:18Now, ABVP has alleged that left-wing student organizations are attempting to disrupt the academic environment on the campus.

00:26Now, according to ABVP, photographs that have surfaced indicate that ISA activists were involved in objectionable writing

00:34alongside a portrait of Veer Savadkar as well as writing political slogans on the campus walls.

00:42Joining us now is India Today's Anmol Bali.

00:45Anmol, what are the accusations that the ABVP is making?

00:49And has there been any action taken as far as the graffiti is concerned?

00:56Graffiti Rao, we are seeing that. Another graffiti was in GARF, the Jawaharlal Nehru University,

01:01where we have seen that a few graffiti pictures have been shared by Akhil Bharati Vidyati Parishat,

01:06where they have accused the ISA of defacing Savarkar's photo and defacing the walls of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

01:13We have seen the graffities where they have written Free Umar Khalid and Long Live Naksal Badi

01:17have been shown by the Akhil Bharati Vidyati Parishat,

01:20where they are accusing the left organization and like ISA,

01:23they are kind of disrupting the academic atmosphere in the campus.

01:27And we have seen that a few days ago, same kind of news came from Jamia Mili Islamiyah,

01:31where a protest is going on Anjali.

01:33And there also we have seen that Free Sharjil Imam and Free Kashmir graffities were seen.

01:39And we have also seen that university administration has condemned the act.

01:42And now we are seeing that this same kind of incident is taking place in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

01:48We are awaiting university's administration's reply on this incident.

01:51But on the other hand, the APVP is accusing the left organization of defacing the walls inside the campus.

01:57Right. Thank you very much, Anmol, for all those details.

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