SFI also alleged that "there have been hate crimes against outstation stations and recalled last year’s incident where a professor of Kirori Mal College came up with a “marks jihad” statement against Kerala students."
Kerala student at DU allegedly attacked for wearing dhoti, check details
Delhi University students from Kerala were allegedly attacked by an intoxicated gang for wearing dhoti. While naming the incident as a xenophobic attack, the Member of Parliament (MP) A A Rahim has urged Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to intervene and to bring justice and make the National capital safer for students.
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) also condemned the attack on outstation students. As per the official statement released by the SFI North Delhi unit, on the morning of November 1, "ABVP goons attacked 4 Kerala students with belts in front of DU’s Daulat Ram College while they were going towards their rooms. Three attackers who came on a bike stopped them and asked, Why are you wearing a dhoti? This is not a place for you to wear this stuff to a student and started attacking with the belts. The drunk goons mercilessly attacked the students while they tried to take the picture of the bike by telling that, This is from DUSU for you people, ” said SFI statement.
SFI also alleged that "there have been hate crimes against outstation stations and recalled last year’s incident where a professor of Kirori Mal College came up with a “marks jihad” statement against Kerala students."
MP Rahim urged Pradhan to ensure that such incidents do not repeat and to take measures to make Delhi University a place where diversity is respected. “It is a shame that such an attack is happening around the campus spaces of one of India’s premier universities and in the national capital. Urgent measures must be taken to ensure that the incident is investigated thoroughly and that the assaulters are found and brought to justice,” he said in a statement to the minister.
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