Students clashed at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) Kaveri Hostel on Sunday evening and several students were injured after a puja was organised at the hostel on the occasion of Ram Navami.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) said that students were attacked by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) after they protested against the ABVP’s demand that non-vegetarian food be taken off the hostel’s dinner menu. The ABVP in turn blamed the violence on members of Left organisations on the campus.
The JNUSU said that, earlier in the day, members of the ABVP had stormed the Kaveri Hostel mess and had demanded that non-vegetarian items be taken off the dinner menu, and the union had called for an all-organisation meeting to condemn the incident.
