NEW DELHI: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) of Jawaharlal Nehru University protested on April 20 against the Left parties and the ‘Anti-Women INDI Alliance’ at Sabarmati Dhaba on the JNU campus. ABVP members burned an effigy of the opposition alliance to protest their obstruction of the Women’s Reservation Bill and their narrow-mindedness towards women. During the protest, students raised slogans against the ‘anti-women’ politics of Left organizations and the Congress Party, exposing their hypocrisy.
Congress, Left parties, and their student organizations have a decades-long history of suppressing women’s rights and exploiting them for political gain. These parties have always pretended to be progressive, but whenever an opportunity arose to empower women or include them in decision-making, these groups, driven by their patriarchal and outdated thinking, obstructed it.
By burning the effigy, the students sent a message that the Indi Alliance’s double standards would no longer be tolerated. Even within the JNU campus, left-wing organizations exploit women’s issues solely to create academic unrest, while suppressing women’s voices within their organizational structures. It is clear that men continue to dominate key decision-making positions. The ABVP emphasized that the parties within the Indi Alliance have been using women solely as a “vote bank,” and this contradiction in their policies has now become completely clear.
ABVP-JNU President Mayank Panchal said that the Left parties and the Congress have held the discussion on women’s rights hostage for years. This was a deliberate conspiracy by the Indi Alliance to prevent women from ever reaching mainstream politics and the center of power. The “anti-women” mindset of these parties has delayed historic reforms like women’s reservation, which women power has completely rejected by taking to the streets.
ABVP-JNU Secretary Pravin Kumar Piyush said that the purpose of today’s protest at Sabarmati Dhaba was to expose the true face of the Indi Alliance and leftist parties. These parties have been spreading lies and illusions in the name of women’s empowerment, while in reality, their system hinders women’s progress. JNU will never accept this anti-women syndicate and will continue to fight to protect women’s dignity and their true rights.
