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The incident took place on Friday afternoon near the university main building, which houses its administrative office, they said. ”In response to the objectionable graffiti on the prime minister found inside the hostel, hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters staged a protest at the university on Friday. However, the protest turned violent when four students of a Left-wing outfit visited the protest site,” a police official said.
A brawl broke out during the protest, in which the four students who belong to the New Socialist Alternative were injured, he said. The police later detained these four students and released them in the evening, the official added. A video of the incident that surfaced on social media shows the four students of the Left-wing group carrying flags of their organisation at the BJP’s protest site. When BJP workers raise ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ slogan, these four students shout ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ slogan.
Following this, the protesters surround these four students and beat them up, the video shows. According to police, graffiti against PM Modi inside the hostel was found on Thursday. BJP’s Pune city unit president Dheeraj Ghate said, ”The objectionable content against our PM Narendra Modi is not at all acceptable. Many students who are not part of the SPPU are roaming inside the campus. We demand stringent action against those who painted the objectionable graffiti against our PM. Pune is the capital city for education. We will not let our university become a JNU.”
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