New Delhi: Activists of BJP's student wing on Sunday protested outside Railway Minister PK Bansal's residences in Delhi and Chandigarh and demanded his resignation in the wake of the arrest of his nephew for allegedly taking bribe to get a plum posting for an official.
Heavy police deployment had been made at both the places. Police used lathicharge to disperse protesting ABVP activists outside his house in Chandigarh and rounded two of them.
The ABVP activists were marching towards the residence of Bansal when police used mild force to disperse them, officials said. About 10 protesters reached Bansal's residence on Ashoka Road in the national capital around 5 PM and shouted slogans asking him to step down....
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09:16 PM, May 05, 2013
The Jaipur Literature festival began on Thursday under heavy security with Pakistani authors attending the programme as scheduled. Controversy surrounded the festival again this year with the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth-wing protesting against the participation of Pakistani authors following tension at the Line of Control. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Rajnath Singh, who was elected President of BJP on January 23, finds himself in the familiar role of leading the party at a time when the party is dogged by factional feud and the Lok Sabha polls not too far away. 61-year-old Singh from Uttar Pradesh, who takes over from Nitin Gadkari, returns to the political terrain in which the low-profile, soft-spoken and articulate leader found himself about six years...
01:25 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The ABVP's Odisha unit on Tuesday protested outside the Bhubaneswar airport over the participation of the Pakistani cricket team in the upcoming women's world cup tournament. The activists protested outside the airport where BCCI members arrived earlier on Tuesday morning. They are to assess preparations for the matches. ...
02:01 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A group of protesters, allegedly owing allegiance to BJP's student wing ABVP clashed with police on December 30 at Jantar Mantar during a demonstration demanding speedy punishment for the rapists of the girl who died after battling for life. The hitherto peaceful protest turned violent at around 1 pm when a group among the protesters carrying flags and banners of ABVP tried to take out a march from Jantar Mantar...
03:29 PM, Dec 30, 2012
New Delhi: After days of campaigning and a record voter turn-out in the Delhi University Students Unions (DUSU) elections this year, the results are finally out. The newly elected President Arun Hooda and Vice President Varun Khari both are from the National Students' Union Of India (NSUI). Hooda beat ABVP's Ankit Dhananjay Chaudhary and Khari beat Gaurav Chaudhary to grab the posts. While Varun Choudhry won the post of secretary...
01:10 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Voting for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections, in which 38 candidates from different political affiliations are contesting for different posts, ended peacefully on Friday evening . The post of president is likely to see a direct contest between National Students' Union of India's (NSUIs) Arun Hooda, a second year student of Buddhist studies, and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVPs)Ankit Dhananjoy Chaudhary, also of Buddhist Studies. Bharatiya...
05:30 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections that are due on September 14 this year will see a total of 38 candidates from different political affiliations contesting for different posts. Campaigning was at its peak in the campus before the polls, with candidates covering every corner to reach out to as many students as possible. BJP's student wing ABVP has, over the past two years, made it a...
04:27 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Bangalore: An hour into classes on Tuesday, students of PU and degree colleges were told that classes would be suspended in view of all-India college bandh. Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Youth Against Corruption (YAC) ensured an effective college bandh. Classes were suspended at National College, Jayanagar, at 11.30 am, when ABVP activists barged in and forced to end the classes. Similar scenes were seen at Government...
02:41 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Mandya: A group of ABVP activists caused a flutter as they picked up an altercation with a group of over 150 youths travelling by a train suspecting them to be illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. However, during police intervention it came to light that the youths were construction workers from West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha heading to Bangalore, Railway Police DySP Arif Ali told PTI. The incident late last night delayed the...
10:38 AM, Aug 31, 2012
A student of the Osmania University in Hyderabad was stabbed for supporting a beef festival organised by several student groups opposing "food fascism" in hostels. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Hyderabad: An ABVP student was stabbed during clashes over a beef festival organised by several student groups in Osmania University opposing "food fascism" in hostels, police said on Monday. The beef festival saw clashes, which saw five students being injured, and even led to vehicles being burnt. The situation in the university was tense as violence continued in the campus past midnight with a group of students attacking the 'C'...
03:40 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday condemned the heckling of separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani in New Delhi during a seminar and said such attacks were of no help in solving the Kashmir issue. Reacting to the news of attack on 81-year-old Geelani, the Chief Minister said "these Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS) and ABVP goons are bloody idiots." "Anyone can assault an old man....
10:22 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Pro-Pakistan hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Monday heckled at a seminar in north Delhi where he faced angry protests from activists of ABVP, the student wing of BJP. As Geelani arrived at the venue in Civil Lines area, Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) protesters gheraoed him and shouted slogans demanding him to leave the venue. Geelani had arrived at around 4 pm for the...
07:11 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Kochi: Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the youth wing of the BJP, on Sunday raised slogans against the presence of human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen at a seminar in Kochi. As Sen arrived at the Law College campus to address a national seminar on "Right to help vis-a-vis the vulnerable population", the ABVP activists staged the protest calling him 'anti-national' and 'supporter of Maoists'. Waving the national...
10:57 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Pune: Pune's Symbiosis University has postponed a seminar on Jammu and Kashmir after the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) youth wing ABVP and some NGOs raised objections. While the ABVP was opposed to the screening of a Kashmiri filmmaker Sanjay Kak's documentary 'Jashna-e-Azadi' calling it separatist, the NGOs took up the issue as they felt the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits was not being adequately represented. Reacting to the controversy, filmmaker...
11:45 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Congress student's wing NSUI on Saturday won the Delhi University Students Union President's post while candidates of BJP's ABVP swept the other three top posts of the body. National Student's Union of India nominee Ajay Chikara won the President's post of the DUSU, while Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad candidate Vikas Choudhary was elected as the Vice-president of the student's body in the low-turnout elections that were held on...
01:47 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Pune: Three anchors of an MTV reality show had their faces blackened by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and were chased out of Pune for using foul language on national television, party officials said here Friday. "We blackened the faces of MTV Roadies anchors Raghu Ram, Rajeev Lakshman and Ranvijay Singh and told them not to set foot in the cultural city of Pune," said Shailendra Dalvi,...
11:40 AM, Apr 23, 2011
Bhopal: A Madhya Pradesh college professor, who was allegedly roughed up by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP) activists earlier this week, has died of heart attack, police said on Saturday. Professor SS Thakur, who was allegedly roughed up by ABVP activists March 9 in the office of the dean of Bhagwant Rao Agriculture College in Khandwa, some 200 km from Bhopal, died of a heart attack late Friday night. The...
10:18 PM, Mar 12, 2011
ABVP, the BJP student wing, has called for a two-day strike in north and south campus. ...
12:17 PM, Mar 11, 2011
