Wardha, India, April 02 : The Hindutva goons attacked a PhD scholar, Rajneesh Kumar Ambedkar, 37, and his classmates in the university camps in Indian state Maharashtra.The Hindutva group barged into the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) around midnight and attacked a PhD Dalit student and his classmates sitting on an indefinite protest there, student leaders said.
The Hindutva goons raised slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and attempted to break the five-day protest at the prestigious 25-year-old Central university, Mahatma Gandhi in Wardha city.
A Dalit researcher, Ambedkar and others are on an indefinite sit-in strike against the MGAHV, demanding the evaluation of his PhD thesis, but the varsity management has not responded in the matter.
Scholar activists like Chandan Saroj said that the ‘saffron goons’ stormed inside the campus, started slapping, beating, kicking and punching the protestors, and hurled obscene, casteist abuses at them throughout the fracas.
When other students tried to click pictures and videos of the incident, they grabbed their mobiles and deleted them, and even threatened with consequences if they continued to record the ruckus in the darkness.
Dalit scholar Ambedkar said that at least five students were hurt and a few more sustained minor injuries even as the attackers fled away after the police entry.
An official Spokesperson for MGAHV told media men the‘Jai Shri Ram’ sloganers attacked the Dalit students