Praveen Lenka Official

  Student organisations, women activists stage protests against crackdown on BHU students 25 Sep. 21:12 Various students bodies, including the the National Students Union of India (NSUI) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), staged demonstrations across the country today against the baton-charge on students in Banaras Hindu University (BHU).  The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) student wing -- the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti -- also organised a protest march at Delhi University's North Campus in solidarity with the BHU students.  The RSS-affiliated ABVP condemned the police action against the students and demanded constitution of a fact-finding committee, while the Congress-backed NSUI demanded an inquiry under a sitting high court judge and resignation of the BHU vice-chancellor.  The two student organisations had separately announced their plans to stage demonstrations outside the office of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) he...