ABVP Demands Action Against Miscreants Who Damaged Swami Vivekanand Statue in 2019-20 JNU Campus Violence

In the 2019-20 JNU campus violence, the Leftist students have caused damage to the Swami Vivekanand statue and ‘Vivekanand Marg’ & ‘Savarkar Marg’ signboards on the campus.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad submitted a memorandum to Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar on Monday (October 11) demanding action against miscreants who had damaged the Swami Vivekanand statue in the JNU violence of 2019-20.

The Leftist students had damaged the Swami Vivekananda statue in the 2019-20 JNU violence. They had also damaged the signboards of ‘Vivekananda Marg’ & ‘Savarkar Marg’.

The memorandum read, “With due regard to your esteemed authority, We, the student representative of ABVP from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, wish to draw your attention towards the damage caused to Swami Vivekananda statue, ‘Vivekananda Marg’ and ‘Savarkar Marg’ signboards, public property such as Administrative building in 2019-20 and inaction on the part of administration.”

It further alleged that the Leftist students indulged in violence to hurt the students' sentiments and create tension on the campus.

It read, “In two separate incidents the ‘Vivekananda Marg’ and ‘Savarkar Marg’ signboards inside the JNU campus were also found broken and damaged by miscreants with a similar mindset to hurt religious feelings and provoke tension.”

The memorandum emphasized that such acts were undermining the “very nature of JNU”.

The ABVP demanded action against the miscreants “so that an example of deterrence is set among the residents of the campus”.