ABVP in MP protests against BJP’s membership drive in a college

Indore: The BJP’s sister outfit the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) protested against the saffron party’s membership drive at a college in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore saying that ‘temples of learning not be turned into hotbeds of politics” Scroll reported citing The Indian Express.

ABVP, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, took out a protest against the principal of the Government Holkar Science College for allowing the membership drive in the college.

It is reported that the BJP MLA for the Indore-3 constituency, Rakesh Shukla, and the party leader Gaurav Ranadive stepped in to sort out the issue.

Subsequently, Suresh T Silawat, who is the principal of the college, issued an order banning all political events in the college ‘without the ABVP’s consent’, according to The Indian Express.

Subsequently, the principal of the college, Suresh T. Silawat, issued an order banning political events on campus "without the consent of the ABVP," according to a report by The Indian Express.

Ritesh Patel, ABVP’s Indore city secretary, reportedly told the outlet that BJP workers conducted membership drive in the college and found that the principal had given permission.

Ritesh Patel added that the student wing started protesting when the principal said ‘we can’t deny them permission’.

Patel said a ‘temple of learning, not a hotbed of politics’ adding that after the BJP some other party would come in the campus.

Meanwhile, the BJP leader Gaurav Ranadive linked the incident to misunderstanding, according to the report.