Delhi

XNew Delhi: Tensions flared on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Thursday during a general body meeting (GBM) of the School of Social Sciences, with the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Left-backed student groups trading charges of violence and disruption.

The JNU is gearing up for its students’ union elections, likely to be held in November.

The university formally constituted a grievance redressal cell earlier in the month to oversee the process.

In a statement, the ABVP alleged that a Left-wing councillor made an “offensive and discriminatory” remark during the meeting, saying “people from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and ABVP students are unworthy of coming to JNU and should be thrown out.”

The statement said that when students protested, Left-wi

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