Eight students injured in clash between ABVP, SFI members at Himachal Pradesh University

The RSS-affiliated ABVP alleged that activists of the SFI, the students’ wing of the CPI(M), harassed its women members and attacked others, leaving eight of them injured.

Eight students injured in clash between ABVP, SFI members at Himachal Pradesh University

A fight between members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the Students’ Federation of India at Himachal Pradesh University has left some students injured. The RSS-affiliated ABVP alleged that activists of the SFI, the students’ wing of the CPI(M), harassed its women members and attacked others, leaving eight of them injured.

Meanwhile, the SFI has denied the allegation and claimed that the ABVP engineered the attack to disrupt its protest against the university’s Enterprise Resource System (ERP) — an online evaluation system.

"An FIR has also been registered against the six members of the ABVP, six of the SFI and others on the basis of charges levelled by the two sides against each other," the police said. "An investigation has been launched into the matter," they said.

"The SFI activists also attacked ABVP members with weapons, injuring eight of them," he claimed.

SFI university campus secretary Surjeet refuted the charges, saying "the attack was “engineered” by ABVP members to put spokes in their movement against the “faulty” ERP system of the university."

“ABVP members pelted stones at SFI activists on Tuesday morning and attacked them with weapons,” he alleged. “Despite several FIRs being registered against ABVP activists in the past, no action has been taken by the police,” he said.

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