ABVP, Left members clash hours after JNUSU polls results

Members of the RSS-affiliated ABVP and the Left-backed AISA clashed early Monday, hours after the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) poll results were announced, with both groups accusing each other of attacking their supporters.

Violence erupted on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus after a united front of Left student groups Sunday won all four central panel posts in the union defeating the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) by considerable margins.

While the AISA alleged that ABVP members randomly attacked students with a former student being almost "lynched" and the new JNUSU president being beaten up, the RSS-affiliate claimed its activists were attacked by Left supporters and three were injured.

This is the second incident of the two groups clashing on campus, the last being on Saturday ahead of the counting, which was suspended after election authorities cited "forcible entry" and "attempts to snatch away ballot boxes".

Newly-elected JNUSU president N Sai Balaji alleged that he was beaten up in the early hours of Monday by ABVP activists
JNU student leader Shehla Rashid Monday tweeted, "ABVP should change its Twitter handle from @ABVPVoice to @ABVPViolence and its full form from Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad to Akhil Bhartiya Violence Parishad."