From Iconic Red To Rising Saffron: How ABVP’s '360° Nationalism' Is Reshaping Campus Politics For Gen Z

Power play through art and culture, social causes, entrepreneurship drives, and a brand of nationalism pitched as the “antibiotic" to ideological “infection" spread by the “forces with ulterior motives" — this is how the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ( ABVP ), student wing of the RSS, is remaking India’s campus politics.

Over the past week, the winning spree of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS, has been steadily pushing the “red" (SFI) and Left-leaning student organisations in some of the prominent educational institutions to the margins as saffron is seizing the student stage. The recent case being that of Panjab University, where ABVP, for the first time, won the position of the union president. And in another instance, the s