Video: ABVP members assault UP university V-C, other officials

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists chased and beat up the vice chancellor and the registrar of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University in Gorakhpur.

The saffron cadre which was protesting outside the university over alleged irregularities in the varsity, barged into the campus on July 21 and assaulted police personnel who had arrived to control the mob.

Dainik Bhaskar reported that members of the ABVP, which is the student organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party, also vandalised the chamber of the vice-chancellor.

The police had to resort to a lathi-charge to control the situation. Vice-chancellor Rajesh Singh and officiating registrar Ajay Singh, and some policemen were injured in the ruckus.

As many as 10 ABVP workers were detained.

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