This fight took place during a meeting at the Sabarmati Dhaba on the campus. The meeting was about picking members for the Election Commission for the 2024 JNUSU elections. The Left group, DSF, said ABVP students disrupted the meeting by causing trouble and not letting it happen peacefully.

Videos on social media showed students arguing loudly, and security had to come in to calm things down.

The DSF accused ABVP of working with the administration to stop the meeting from happening. They said it was an attempt to stop the fair process of elections.

The Students’ Federation of India said ABVP students attacked the JNUSU president, Aishe Ghosh.

ABVP said it was actually the Left group who started the fight. They said Left students tried to disturb the meeting because they didn’t want it to happen. ABVP said they tried to stop the disruptions, but it led to a fight.

The situation got worse as ABVP accused the Left group of starting trouble after they couldn’t stop the meeting.

A lot of students had come to Sabarmati Dhaba for the meeting. Earlier in the day, enough students had agreed to have the meeting, so it could start.

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JNUSU claims that nearly 87,000 has been spent alone on the flight tickets for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The administration spent Rs 2.3 lakhs on Sri Sri’s programme and Rs 1.19 lakh for hosting Sadhguru in JNU under the budget head “Annual Day Celebration”. RTI has been filed by JNUSU President N Sai Balaji that showed amounts spent by the JNU VC and his associates on these events. This is followed by calling two days strike by student ,union at JNU on 8th and 9^th Jan. “We have called the strike demanding the removal of the VC for financial misappropriation,” Balaji said.

The student’s body claims about the diplomatic nature of the institute were at one end the library’s funding is being reduced by nearly 80% and JNU’s vice-chancellor had denied registration to a visually challenge student of the center for Japanese Studies, Munesh, who was failed due to lack of facilities as the UGC doesn’t have enough funds. We believe he’s played a massive role in corruption and has been diverting money meant for seminars, conferences and academic engagements for the construction of statues in campus and for the renovation of homes and officers of senior officials,” Balaji said.

The students union was surprised by the fact that ONGC which is a science and technology-based company spent 8.3 lakhs additionally over the 2.3 lakhs spent by JNU administration for Sri Sri programme.

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According to JNUSU it was the meeting, “where the dubious proposal of online entrance examination” was to be imposed. They allegedly stated that “the online entrance examination is a policy intended to destroy, dismantle and shut down JNU. Last year’s admission data with details of reservation are also being withheld by the vice-chancellor”, claiming that he seeks one timetable, one syllabus and one system for JNU. The message circulated by the JNUSU appealing the students to participate in the strike read, “We cannot allow JNU VC to destroy JNU. Let’s stand united and resist the Draconian move.” N Sai Balaji, JNUSU president added that the VC “did not even bother to invite the office bearers” which makes it clear that “the administration plans to push regressive anti-student policies on us.”
The university administration responded to these allegations in a press note by saying that the office bearers of JNUSU are not the members of academic council and remain only special invitees to such meetings.

By Sonali Bangia – DU Times

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