ABVP holds protest on St. Xavier's College campus amid delay in student body formation

The members of the RSS student wing raised slogans against the principal and the management and shouted Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram.

ABVP holds protest on St. Xavier's College campus amid delay in student body formation

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has created a ruckus on the St Xavier’s College campus in North Goa alleging that the college had failed to constitute the student council.  A group of ABVP activists including three students of the college entered the campus and protested nearly for three hours and allegedly disrupted the classes urging other students and faculty members to join their protest. The members of the RSS student wing raised slogans against the principal and the management and shouted Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram.

Joint mamlatdar Varsha Parab, a taluka official, arrived on the campus and held talks with the protesters and the college management. It was decided that the management would meet a delegation of five students and that the ABVP activists would immediately disperse.

An ABVP activist who was present on the campus said, “We wanted the college authorities to constitute the student's council. But they were not responding. The college authorities were unhappy with the student who was elected general secretary.”

In a written statement, college administrator Fr Tony Salema said, “The incident on the college campus was unprecedented. It was very unfortunate. A group of boys and girls including three students from St Xavier’s entered the campus shouting political slogans and also abusing the principal, management and staff. Being an educational institute, we categorically state that St Xavier’s College condemns such unruly behavior and requests all our students to dissociate themselves from such activities.

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