ABVP activists during a protest march demanding action against the ‘anti-national activities’ at North Campus. (Photo: Bunny Smith)

New Delhi: Thousands of ABVP activists and Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) took out a “Save DU” march on Thursday at North Campus, calling for a nation-wide ban on Left- affiliated organisations.

While chanting “Bharat mein rehna hoga, Vande Mataram kehna hoga” and “Afzal ke yaaro Bharat chodo,” the ABVP began their march from Arts faculty and concluded at Swami Vivekananda statue at Arts Faculty while passing through Khalsa and Ramjas college.

The police had closed Chattra Marg towards Arts faculty along with the gates of Vishwavidyalaya Metro station for an hour. Nearly 700 police personnel were stationed amid the North Campus in order to ensure there was no violence during the march and to maintain law and order. The hoardings in the campus put up by the RSS-affiliated students’ wing showed mutilated bodies of BJP leaders who were killed in alleged violence by left parties in Kerala. The protestors, who said that the march is to instigate feelings of nationalism among students, were also seen waving a giant triclour outside the Arts faculty. “We will not tolerate those who talk about breaking the country,” said DUSU president Amit Tanwar.

Meanwhile, Big boss 10 participant Om Swami had reached to join the protest march but ABVP’s hooting against him, forced him to leave the spot.

Among the other demands by the ABVP members was that the Delhi Police should file its chargesheet in the February 2016 JNU sedition case as well as take action against those who allegedly chanted anti-national slogans.

Reacting on the hoardings, AISA said that the hoardings are maligning the image of one particluar organisation without any legal grounds. “It is labeling people nationalists and anti-nationalists. ABVP resorts to hate mongering by putting provocative hoardings in campus trying to justify the violence unleashed in ramjas incident,” it said.

ABVP’s protest was the second protest in two days as it held a protest outside Delhi Police headquarters on Wednesday.