Hindu Sena, which had organised religious prayer meetings last week claiming to “purify” JNU campus and “eliminate anti-nationals”, has decided to field candidates from its students’ wing for the JNU
Hindu Sena, which had organised religious prayer meetings last week claiming to “purify” JNU campus and “eliminate anti-nationals”, has decided to field candidates from its students’ wing for the JNU student elections.
The keenly contested student elections are slated to happen in Sept-ember. However, various outfits have begun their preparations for the polls for four crucial seats.
Starting its JNU unit in 2013, the Hindu Vidyarthi Sena (HVS) claimed that it has been organising various prayer meetings and havans on campus. The latest being a prayer meeting on Ram Navmi held with an aim of “purifying the JNU campus and eliminating the anti-national elements present there”.
Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta said, “We have been working for the past three years to form a base on campus. We have organised various prayer meetings and havans on the campus which is believed to be left-dominated, we have got good support from students in our events.
“Recently, we held an event on Ram Navmi to purify the campus and eliminate the anti-national elements. Though we differ with them in ideology but any left group has not disrupted any of our events on campus so far,” he added.
Mr Gupta, who was arrested in January in connection with the vandalism at Pakistan Inter-national Airlines office for allegedly planning the attack, said, “HVS had made its debut in JNU’s councillor elections last year by securing one seat. However, this year there are plans to contest for four seats of students’ union”.
