Thursday, November 6, 2008

ABVP disrupts University Program spits on Geelani



ABVP activists vandalise Delhi varsity building
Parul Sharma
Protester spits on S.A.R. Geelani; group hurls abuses and disrupts a seminar attended by him
— Photos: Rajeev Bhatt 

CHAOS AND CONFRONTATION: S.A.R. Geelani (centre), acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Parliament attack case, trying to defuse tension created when a student (right) spat on him while he was attending a seminar in Delhi on Thursday.
NEW DELHI: Protesting against the presence of S. A. R. Geelani, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Parliament attack case, activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday vandalised the Arts Faculty building at Delhi University, where a seminar was in progress. A protester even spat on Mr. Geelani.
A lecturer at the Zakir Husain College, Mr. Geelani had been invited by a newly formed group, University Community, to chair a meeting on ‘Communalism, Fascism and Democracy: Rhetoric and Reality’ in Room No. 22 of the Arts Faculty building on the North Campus.  more 

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