The right wing Hindu nationalist Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student group is trying its best to infiltrate North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) here through a secondary outfit known as the World Organisation of Students and Youths (WOSY), the Hynñiewtrep Youths Council (HYC) said today.
The HYC has taken strong exception to the goings-on in NEHU, with the ABVP-WOSY combine collaborating with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Last week, NEHU’s Students Union (NEHUSU) claimed that its vice-president, Easterson Sohtun, sustained injuries in the clash with members of the RSS and ABVP during an event meant to celebrate Holi. WOSY organised the function and it said that the claim of the RSS and ABVP’s participation is false. WOSY blamed NEHUSU for starting the fracas.
“The so-called celebration of the festival of Holi inside the campus by WOSY in collaboration with ABVP/RSS members is nothing but an attempt to communalise the festival and also to politicise it,” the HYC said today. “In all these years, the students and faculty members as well as staff of NEHU have been holding such festivals in their individual capacity and there was no objection. But celebrating such a festival with a motive to communalise and politicise the same cannot be accepted by the HYC.”
While WOSY claimed that it had sought for and received permission for the celebration, the HYC claimed today that no permission had been granted, according to information it has received, especially for allowing outsiders to take part on campus.
The pressure group accused the ABVP of trying to make inroads on NEHU’s campuses in Shillong and Tura “with an objective of spreading the politics of hate and creating communal tensions by using WOSY, as it cannot make inroads by itself.”
