NEW DELHI: A commotion erupted at Jamia Millia Islamia University on Tuesday night during a Diwali celebration organised by some students.
The incident occurred around 7.30-8 pm near Gate 7, the police informed, but no FIR has been registered so far. The police were deployed outside the campus to ensure peace.
The disturbance occurred when a group of students clashed over the nature of the event.
A group of ABVP-affiliated students were setting up ‘diyas’ and creating ‘rangolis’ for Diwali when another group of students disrupted the decorations, leading to a scuffle.
A video capturing a part of the altercation has gone viral. The video, shared widely on platform X, shows students engaged in a verbal spat, with security personnel trying to diffuse the situation.
In a statement on Tuesday, the JMI unit of the Student Federation of India claimed that “ABVP, under the guise of Diwali celebrations, unleashed an attack on students”. The JMI unit of the Congress-backed NSUI also blamed the “shameful act of violence by ABVP goons on our campus”.
Denying these allegations, ABVP’s national media convener Ashutosh Singh said, “ABVP-affiliated students had organised a Diwali programme, and it ran peacefully for about an hour or two. However, after that, some students from another group showed up, disrupted the event by damaging ‘diyas’, and started chanting slogans like ‘Long live Palestine’. We are not responsible for the violence.”