In the aftermath of the Ramjas college violence, students across the country have joined hands to express solidarity with a social media campaign against the ABVP. The campaign kick started by Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh. It has now gone viral.?
Facebook/GurMehar Kaur
Kaur, who is a student of Lady Shri Ram College, changed her profile picture with a message reading, "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP". And she asked all those you are up in arms against the ABVP do the same.?
What followed was a flood of responses from youths across the country, who changed their display picture on Facebook and Instagram with the same note.?
In a hard-hitting Facebook post against the ABVP, Gurmehar Kaur wrote, "it is an attack on ideals, morals, freedom and rights of every person born in this nation. The stones that you pelt hit our bodies, but fail to bruise our ideas."
"It is not about two political parties against each other. It's about students against a student-government organisation that does not believe in Democracy and uses violence to support its autocratic way of leadership. This is students standing up against goons and bullies to reclaim the university space that belongs to them," she told TOI.?
Gurmehar Kaur lost her father Captain Mandeep Singh in the 1999 Kargil War when she was just two-years-old. ?Last year, her ?silent video using a series of placards to convey a strong message of peace between India and Pakistan went viral.?
Here's how students across universities in India have responded to the movement called #StudentsAgainstABVP:?
On Wednesday, ABVP went on a rampage decrying the invitation of ?JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on ‘Culture of Protests’, which was later withdrawn by the college authorities.?