Saffron setback
The HinduTHE campus was tense. Since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Centre, the ABVP, its students’ wing, has gained prominence on campuses across India through communal polarisation and violent tactics. In Gauhati University, the ABVP managed to win only two seats in the Post-Graduate Students’ Union election. While the ABVP bagged the second position on all the four central panel posts, the Birsa, Ambedkar, Phule Students’ Association increased its vote share substantially, signalling its growing relevance in campus politics. Certain incidents, such as Najeeb Ahmed’s disappearance after a murderous assault by the ABVP and the Vice Chancellor’s foolhardy initiatives to install a tank on the campus and potted plants on the steps of the academic block to prevent students from staging protests there, played a role in the elections.
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