Yesterday, a mob tore through dormitories inside one of India’s leading universities, beating students and teachers. The incident was the latest violent turn in weeks of unrest across much of India after the passage of a controversial citizenship law.
The crowd at a campaign event for India’s oldest communist party shouted “Lal Salaam,” or “red salute,” while showering the candidate who arrived in their village with garlands.
Among those injured Sunday was the current student body president, Aishe Ghosh, who was seen bleeding severely from the head in“I have been brutally attacked by goons who were masked,” she said. “I’ve been bleeding. I’m not even in a condition to talk.” Shwetank Tewari, a 31-year-old doctoral student, was in a friend’s dorm room when members of the mob tried to break in and attack them, he said. Tewari and a group of about 15 other students and one professor blocked the attackers from getting in.“There are rumors flying all over the place,” he said. “Everyone is terrorized, everyone is in a state of panic.”
Tewari and other students said attackers were going through dorm rooms, picking targets based on the occupants’ religion or perceived ideology. “They selectively targeted the rooms of the students who are Muslims and are from a different political opinion or party,” he said. “We were able to hear [them say] ...'Go to this room, go to that room — this room is ours, that room theirs.’”The accounts and the university’s history of activism led many to reject the ABVP’s assertions that left-wing students carried out the attack.
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