New Delhi, Jan 6 (AFP/APP) :Dozens were hurt at a prestigious Indian university on Sunday in what police said were clashes between rival student groups but which an opposition politician blamed on a student organisation linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Unverified videos on social media appeared to show a group of several masked attackers roaming the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi wielding batons as students screamed. “Today evening, two groups clashed with each other and some students are injured,” a senior Delhi police officer told journalists. “The university administration has requested the police to enter (the campus),” the officer said, adding, “Things are under control right now.” Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India, called the attack a “collusion” between the JNU administration and “goons” of a student group linked to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “It is a planned attack by those in power, which is afraid of the resistance provided by JNU,” Yechury said. The BJP distanced itself from the incident and Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student organisation blamed for the violence by the opposition, said that 25 of its members were injured during the campus attack. “This is … Continue reading Attack at elite Indian university injures dozens