NEW DELHI: Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju on Monday wondered who was “polluting” the mind of a Delhi University student campaigning on social media against the ABVP.
Gurmehar Kaur, a student of Lady Shri Ram College and daughter of an army officer killed in the Kargil war, launched a social media campaign against the ABVP after the violence in Ramjas College.Kaur posted a picture on Facebook saying: “I am a student of Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me.”
Clashes took place at Delhi University’s Ramjas college on February 22 after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members forced the cancellation of a seminar and then disrupted a march.
She then received rape and life threats on social media by some who called her “anti-national”.