Student told me cops kicked his head: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tears into govt over JNU violence
student told Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday that the police had kicked him several times on the head on a night when masked assailants went on the rampage in the JNU campus in Delhi.
That’s what the senior Congress leader herself said in tweets she posted late on Sunday night, after reaching AIIMs to meet victims.
“Wounded students at the AIIMS trauma centre told me that goons entered the campus and attacked them with sticks and other weapons. Many had broken limbs and injuries on their heads. One student said the police kicked him several times on his head,” she wrote.
“There is something deeply sickening about a government that allows and encourages such violence to be inflicted on their own children,” she said.
Priyanka Gandhi slammed BJP leaders for “pretending that it wasn’t their goons who unleashed this violence”.
“The people are not deceived,” she said.
The Left-controlled JNU Students’ Union and the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad — the student wing of the RSS — blamed each other for the violence at JNU, as a result of which 20 injured were taken to AIIMs for treatment.
The BJP, on its part, condemned the violence and decried a “desperate attempt by forces of anarchy” that it said were “determined to use students as cannon fodder” and “create unrest to shore up their shrinking political footprint”.
Like Priyanka Gandhi, other Opposition leaders have pounced on Sunday night’s events to target the government. CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury described it as “a planned attack by those in power, which is afraid of the resistance provided by JNU to its Hindutva agenda”.
