NSUI makes use of outdated photograph of SFI chief to accuse ABVP of violence in DU polls

Amid the Delhi University Student’s Union (DUSU) Polls, the Congress pupil’s wing, National Student’s Union of India (NSUI), falsely claimed that the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members had been partaking in ‘violence’ on the college campus. They claimed that the ABVP members ‘attacked’ the automobile of the NSUI presidential candidate, Hitesh Gulia.

ABVP denied the allegations and affirmed that it was NSUI members who had been roaming round campus with sticks and making a ruckus inside the varsity. A day after the incident, the NSUI posted a tweet with a caption that learn, “ABVP in pursuit of Violence!” The submit made false claims because it posed a six-year-old image of the then Students’ Federation of India (SFI) chief Prashanta Mukherjee partaking in violence. NSUI indicated that the individual seen within the photograph (Mukherjee) belonged to the ABVP and that the picture was from latest election campaigns.

Screenshot from Twitter (X)

The false claims of the NSUI had been uncovered by Diksha Verma who’s the National Spokesperson of the BJP Youth Wing. She mentioned that the photograph shared by the NSUI was that of the then SFI chief Prashant Mukharjee and that it was from the yr 2017.

“Following its parent organization Congress’s footsteps; here’s NSUI shamelessly lying! This is a picture from 2017, a protest that I was a part of too, and where the leftists from JNU/DU molested and assaulted us. This man in the picture was the then President of SFI, Prashant Mukherjee!” she wrote on Twitter (X).

Following its father or mother organisation Congress’s footsteps; right here’s NSUI shamelessly mendacity!

This is an image from 2017, a protest that I used to be part of too & the place the leftists from JNU/DU molested & assaulted us. This man within the image was the then President of SFI, Prashant… pic.twitter.com/PQif99zvjT

— Diksha Verma (@dikshaaverma) September 21, 2023

The lie by NSUI was additionally uncovered as one of many authorities official’s outdated tweets, Kanchan Gupta’s tweet from the yr 2017 revealed that the individual seen within the picture shared by NSUI is Mukharjee and that it was captured within the yr 2017 when he was brutally assaulting a pupil and an ABVP activist.

Delhi #SFI chief Prashanta Mukherjee brutally assaulting a #DU pupil & ABVP activist for protesting Left Wing thuggery backed by #LeftLib pic.twitter.com/pdXYgHZMXs

— Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 (@KanchanGupta) February 24, 2017

The NSUI has said that the ABVP tried to vandalize the automobile of its DUSU presidential candidate, Hitesh Gulia, whereas the ABVP has said that it’s the Congress-backed group that’s wandering round campus with sticks.

A video purportedly exhibiting a gaggle of individuals vandalizing a automotive with Gulia’s identify on it surfaced on social media. These prices have been refuted by the ABVP. Ashutosh Singh, National Media Convenor, ABVP mentioned, “We have videos which show that NSUI’s candidate members are going around the campus with sticks and guns.”

Violence Parishad ने DUSU चुनाव में फिर से हिंसा और तोड़ फोड़ के नये रिकॉर्ड बना दिये। महिला कॉलेजों में इनकी बेहूदगी चरम पर है। #StudentvsSarkar की इस लड़ाई में DU अब बदलाव चाह रही है। चोट का जवाब अब वोट से ! #DUSU4165 pic.twitter.com/IkZAGv2C1A

— NSUI (@nsui) September 19, 2023

Notably, Police have registered a case of breach of peace in reference to the assault on the automotive.

The marketing campaign for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections concluded on Thursday morning, September 21 forward of the elections on Friday. The voting course of will start on September 22.