Bengaluru: Over 30 activists of ABVP were detained in the city today after the student organisations continued their protest in several parts of Karnataka against the workshop by Amnesty International and the Theosophical college in the city, in which student's families participated from Jammu and Kashmir. The families which participated in the workshop last evening, indulged in verbal duel which resulted in chaos.
While some groups condemned the acts of Indian Army, others supported the Army's presence in Kashmir. The workshop titled 'Broken Families' saw participation of many people and students in Kashmir. This led to trouble when anti-Indian Army sentiments were expressed by one group. The Kashmiri families, however, narrated the Army action in Kashmir from 2002 that had led them to face trouble. The sloganeering led to a chaos and led to more ''pro-India and pro-Kashmir independence'' slogans.
Police who were present at the meeting there video-graphed the entire incident, immediately. Meanwhile, the ABVP continued its protest today in the city and some other parts of Karnataka. They protested in front of Amnesty International local office and the Theosophical College in the city. BJP Yuva Morcha President and Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha member Pratap Simha led the protest before the college premises.
The activists painted the boards of the college black and raised slogans against what they called anti-national sentiments of the organisers who held the workshop. Police rounded up the protesting ABVP youth and bundled them into a bus and took them away. Karnataka BJP Yuva Morcha President Pratap Simha, who is also the Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha member, joined the protesters at the college premises and condemned the anti-social statements made during the workshop yesterday.
Yeddyurappa demands Strict action
BJP State unit President B S Yeddyurappa told reporters in the city that such a behaviour of the people who accused the Indian Army personnel who safeguard the national interest at the cost of their own life is a 'crime', and the state government should take action against those who expressed anti-national sentiments in yesterday's event. The J C Nagar police have filed an FIR in this case following a complaint filed by ABVP activists against some persons, who was named, for expressing sentiments and shouting slogans against the Indian Army. They alleged that such behaviour was 'seditious' in nature. The ABVP activists in the complaint had alleged that some persons who took part in the workshop had shouted slogans that ''Jammu and Kashmir does not belong to India and give it to Pakistan''.
Police Lathi charged ABVP volunteers
Police resorted to lathicharge to disperse a wild group of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) volunteers who lay seize of the City Police Commissioner's Office demanding immediate arrest of officials of Amnesty International against whom sedition charges have been filed for making Anti India and Anti Indian Army slogans.
Amnesty International India termed charges baseless
Amnesty International India today said that the police complaint filed by ABVP over the workshop 'Broken Families' participated by Kashmiri nationals in the city on August 13, lacked substance. Police have booked a case and filed an FIR on sedition charges under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code following an ABVP complaint to this effect against the NGO. The unnamed representatives of the non-government organization have also been booked under Section 142,143, 147, 149 (unlawful assembly and rioting) and Section 153a (promoting enmity between groups).
