Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (ABVP) took to the streets in Bengaluru and Mysore to protest against an event organised by Amnesty International India to draw attention towards alleged human rights violations in Kashmir.
Members of the ABVP protested outside the United Theological College on Millers Road on Sunday morning.
On Saturday, Amnesty had organised an event called ‘Broken Families’, aimed at highlighting human rights violations in Kashmir. However, arguments, slogans and counter-slogans broke out during the event.
Three families from the Valley were to speak about alleged human rights violations by the armed forces as a part of Amnesty’s Broken Families’ campaign. The event also included a performance by Kashmiri rapper Roushan Illahi who goes by his stage name MC Kash. The performance was interrupted by sloganeering.
Amnesty had obtained police protection for the event.
Members of ABVP who were at the event raised objections at the NGO and at the three families for uttering “anti-national” slogans.
Danush, member of Hindu Jaagrana Vedike, who was at the event, said:
There was a skit in which the message was to separate Kashmir from India. They also said ‘Ladke lenge Kashmir, bandhook se lenge Kashmir’ (We will fight for Kashmir, we will use gunpower to take Kashmir). This might be tolerated in other cities, but in Bengaluru they cannot utter these words. Moreover these people are brainwashed by terrorist groups and that is why they are behaving in this way.
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