Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद

ABVP flag
Abbreviation ABVP
Motto Gyan-Sheel-Ekta (Knowledge-Character-Unity)
Formation 1948
Type Student Organisation
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Region served
 India
National President
 Nagesh Thakur
National General Secretary
 Vinay Bidre
National Organising Secretary
 Sunil Ambekar
Main organ
 Rashtriya Chhatrashakti
Website www.abvp.org

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (translation: All Indian Student Council) is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It participates in joint activities with BJP's official youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.[1][2]

History

The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS activist Balraj Madhok, was formally registered on 9 July 1949.[3] Its primary purpose was reportedly to counter communist influences on university campuses.[4] Professor Yeshwantrao Kelkar, a lecturer in Bombay, became its main organizer in 1958. According to the ABVP website, he built the organisation into what it is now and is considered to be 'the real architect of the ABVP'.[5]

Various branches of the ABVP have reportedly been involved in riots against Muslims since 1961. However, in the 1970s, the ABVP also increasingly took on issues concerning the lower middle classes like corruption and government inertia that were also being taken on by communist student groups.[6] The ABVP played a leading role in the agitational politics of the 1970s during the JP movement. This led to collaboration among student activists in Gujarat and Bihar. The ABVP gained significantly from such efforts after the Emergency and experienced a growth in membership.[7]

ABVP activist protesting

By 1974, the ABVP had 160,000 members across 790 campuses and had gained control over several prominent universities, including University of Delhi via student elections. By 1983, the organization had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.[8] ABVP continued to grow and during the 1990s it became the largest student union in India. As of 2016 ABVP boasts to have around 3.175 million members and claims to be the largest student based organisation in the world. [9]

Activities

The ABVP's manifesto includes agendas such as educational and university reforms.[10] It competes in student-body elections in colleges and universities. Students for Development (SFD) is an initiative by the ABVP to promote "right perspective towards the need of holistic and sustainable development" in students. [11] The official ABVP magazine is Rashtriya Chhatrashakti, which is published monthly in Hindi in New Delhi.[12]

ABVP has been in the news due to violent incidents, attacks and alleged right-wing extremism which are mostly claimed by ABVP to protest against anti-national and anti-hindutva activities

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Protests by BJYM, ABVP mar ICET counselling". The Hindu.
  2. ↑ "BJYM, ABVP protest against incursion by Chinese - JK Newspoint Newspaper Jammu Kashmir". jknewspoint.com.
  3. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7.
  4. ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010-01-01). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 47. ISBN 9789380607047.
  5. ↑ "About". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  6. ↑ Kaiwar, Vasant; Mazumdar, Sucheta (2003-04-21). Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation. Duke University Press. p. 239. ISBN 0822330466.
  7. ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010-01-01). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 193. ISBN 9789380607047.
  8. ↑ Kaiwar, Vasant; Mazumdar, Sucheta (2003-04-21). Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation. Duke University Press. p. 239. ISBN 0822330466.
  9. ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jnu-protests-jnusu-behind-abvp-confidence-govt-and-growth-rohith-vemula/
  10. ↑ "ABVP educational reforms". Thehindu.com. 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  11. ↑ "SFD". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  12. ↑ "Обновление FLV Player". Abvp.org. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  13. ↑ "ABVP activists blacken faces of MTV Roadies anchors". NDTV. 2011-04-23. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  14. ↑ "ABVP activists blacken MTV anchor's face". The Hindu. 2011-04-24. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  15. ↑ "Jharkhand: ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest". India Today. 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  16. ↑ "'Businessman' reels burnt by ABVP men". IBN-Live. 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  17. ↑ "Kashmir seminar postponed after ABVP protest". NDTV. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  18. ↑ "In Jaipur replay, university bows to ABVP film fatwa". The Hindu. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  19. ↑ "ABVP pushes Symbiosis University to call off seminar on Kashmir". India Today. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  20. ↑ "Violence in Osmania University as right wing students groups attack Beef Festival of Dalit students". India Today. 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  21. ↑ "ABVP thrashes FTII student for not saying ‘Jai Narendra Modi’". The Hindu. 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  22. ↑ "Right-wing hooligans and a complicit State". The Sunday Guardian. 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  23. ↑ "Right wing activists target Kashmiri film fest in Hyderabad". IBN-Live. 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  24. ↑ "PK row: ABVP burns Aamir Khan's effigy in Muzaffarnagar". Times of India. December 30, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2015.

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