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| leader_title        = National President
| leader_title        = National President
| leader_name        = Chhaganbhai Patel (Mehsana)<ref name="Hindustan Times">{{cite news |title=ABVP finds new president in Chhaganbhai Patel; Nidhi Tripathi re-elected general secretary |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/abvp-finds-new-president-in-chhaganbhai-patel-nidhi-tripathi-re-elected-general-secretary/story-gpCx7jUVSKKuW9uzg0p4eJ.html |access-date=4 February 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=16 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
| leader_name        = Chhaganbhai Patel
| leader_title2      = National General Secretary
| leader_title2      = National General Secretary
| leader_name2        = Nidhi Tripathi (Delhi)<ref name="Hindustan Times">{{cite news |title=ABVP finds new president in Chhaganbhai Patel; Nidhi Tripathi re-elected general secretary |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/abvp-finds-new-president-in-chhaganbhai-patel-nidhi-tripathi-re-elected-general-secretary/story-gpCx7jUVSKKuW9uzg0p4eJ.html |access-date=4 February 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=16 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
| leader_name2        = Nidhi Tripathi
| leader_title3       = National Vice Presidents
| leader_title3       = National Organising Secretary
| leader_name3        = Dr. Prashant Sathe (Pune)<br>Dr. Manu Sharma Kataria (Delhi)<br>Dr. Bhupendra Singh (Bareilly)
| leader_name3        = Ashish Chauhan
| leader_title4      = National Secretaries
| parent_organization = [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS)
| leader_name4        = Saptarshi Sarkar (Kolkata)<br>Harsha Narayan (Bengaluru)<br>Vineeta Indwar (Ranchi)<br>Rahul Chaudhary (Delhi)<br>Gajendra Tomar (Bhopal)<br>Muthuramalingam (Madurai)<br>Jeet Singh (Noida)
| leader_title5        = National Organizing Secretary
| leader_name5        = Ashish Chauhan (Mumbai)<ref>{{cite news |title=शिमला के आशीष चौहान बने एबीवीपी के राष्ट्रीय संगठन मंत्री|url=https://www.amarujala.com/shimla/ashish-chauhan-of-rohru-shimla-elected-as-national-organising-secretary-of-abvp |access-date=24 June 2021 |work=Amar Ujala |date=25 November 2019 |language=hi}}</ref>
| leader_title6        = National Joint Organising Secretaries
| leader_name6        = G. Laxman (Chennai)<br>Shriniwas (Patna)<br>Prafulla Akant (Delhi)
| leader_title7        = Treasurer
| leader_name7        = Gitesh Samant(Mumbai)
| leader_title8        = Central Office Secretary
| leader_name8        = Neeraj Choudharkar(Mumbai)
| leader_title9        = Central Secretariat, Secretary
| leader_name9        = Devananad Tyagi(Mumbai)
| num_staff          =  
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| membership          = 3.2&nbsp;million<ref name="IE2015">{{cite news |title=Enrolled 10 lakh new members in last one year: ABVP |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/enrolled-10-lakh-new-members-in-last-one-year-abvp/ |access-date=15 July 2019 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=3 June 2015 |language=en-IN}}</ref>
| membership          = 31,45,180<ref name="IE2021">{{cite news |title=15 दिसंबर, 2021 तक अभाविप की सदस्यता का आंकड़ा 31,45,180 है: निधी त्रिपाठी|url=https://twitter.com/ABVPVoice/status/1474398897585807363?t=E4xVuSOpABNwv5c7RCE1uQ&s=19 |access-date=25 December 2021 |work=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad |date=24 December 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref>
| membership_year    = 2014-2015
| membership_year    = 2021-2022
| budget              =  
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| website            = {{URL|www.abvp.org}}
| website            = {{URL|www.abvp.org}}
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{{short description|Indian student organisation}}
{{short description|Indian student organisation}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}}
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'''Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)''' ({{translation|''All Indian Student Council''}}) is a [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] <!-- wording from Feb 2016 --> all India [[student organisation]] affiliated to the [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref>Nilanjana Bhowmick, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/21/indias-crackdown-at-college-campuses-is-a-threat-to-democracy/?noredirect=on India’s crackdown at college campuses is a threat to democracy], The Washington Post, 21 June 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/protests-by-bjym-abvp-mar-icet-counselling/article1874351.ece|title=Protests by BJYM, ABVP mar ICET counselling|newspaper=The Hindu|date=17 July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/age-of-abvp|title=The age of ABVP|last1=Dubey|first1=Priyanka|date=October 2017|website=[[The Caravan]]|language=en|access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref> They claim themselves to be India's largest student organisation with more than three million members.<ref name="latimes1">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-student-activists-20160301-story.html |title=Controversial student activists turn India's universities into ideological battlegrounds |work=LA Times |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref>
'''Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)''' ({{translation|''All Indian Student Council''}}) is a [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] <!-- wording from Feb 2016 --> all India [[student organisation]] affiliated to the [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref>Nilanjana Bhowmick, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/21/indias-crackdown-at-college-campuses-is-a-threat-to-democracy/?noredirect=on India’s crackdown at college campuses is a threat to democracy], The Washington Post, 21 June 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/protests-by-bjym-abvp-mar-icet-counselling/article1874351.ece|title=Protests by BJYM, ABVP mar ICET counselling|newspaper=The Hindu|date=17 July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/age-of-abvp|title=The age of ABVP|last1=Dubey|first1=Priyanka|date=October 2017|website=[[The Caravan]]|language=en|access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref> It is India's third largest student organisation with more than three million members.<ref name="latimes1">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-student-activists-20160301-story.html |title=Controversial student activists turn India's universities into ideological battlegrounds |work=LA Times |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
The ABVP, founded in [[1948]] with the initiative of the [[RSS pracharak|RSS activist]] [[Balraj Madhok]], was formally registered on 9 July 1949.<ref name="Jaffrelot2010">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC&pg=PA193|year=2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=978-93-80607-04-7|page=193}}</ref> Its primary purpose was to counter communist influences on university campuses.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=47|language=en}}</ref>  [[Yashwant Rao Kelkar]], a lecturer in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], became its main organiser 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'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/about/|title=About|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
The ABVP, founded in [[1948]] with the initiative of the [[RSS pracharak|RSS activist]] [[Balraj Madhok]], was formally registered on 9 July 1949.<ref name="Jaffrelot2010">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC&pg=PA193|year=2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=978-93-80607-04-7|page=193}}</ref> Its primary purpose was to counter communist propaganda on university campuses.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=47|language=en}}</ref>  [[Yashwant Rao Kelkar]], a lecturer in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], became its main organiser 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'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/about/|title=About|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>


Various branches of the ABVP have been involved in Hindu-Muslim communal riots since 1961.<ref name="kaiwar239">{{Cite book |last1=Mazumdar |first1=Sucheta |chapter=Politics of religion and national origin |title=Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation |editor1=Vasant Kaiwar |editor2=Sucheta Mazumdar |date=21 April 2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=0822330466 |page=239 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haJl-fvKqCcC&pg=PA239 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Violette |last1=Graff |first2=Juliette |last2=Galonnier |title=Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India I (1947-1986), Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence |publisher=[[Sciences Po]] |year=2013 |url=http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824023819/http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> 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 (India)|the Emergency]] and experienced a growth in membership.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|last1=Jaffrelot|first1=Christophe|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=193|language=en}}</ref>
Various branches of the ABVP have been involved in Hindu-Muslim communal riots since 1961.<ref name="kaiwar239">{{Cite book |last1=Mazumdar |first1=Sucheta |chapter=Politics of religion and national origin |title=Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation |editor1=Vasant Kaiwar |editor2=Sucheta Mazumdar |date=21 April 2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=0822330466 |page=239 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haJl-fvKqCcC&pg=PA239 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Violette |last1=Graff |first2=Juliette |last2=Galonnier |title=Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India I (1947-1986), Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence |publisher=[[Sciences Po]] |year=2013 |url=http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824023819/http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2013}}</ref> However, in the 1970s, the ABVP also increasingly took on issues concerning the lower middle classes like corruption and government inertia.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> 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 (India)|the Emergency]] and experienced a growth in membership.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|last1=Jaffrelot|first1=Christophe|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=193|language=en}}</ref>


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 organisation had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> ABVP grew during the 1990s, receiving more support as a result of the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|Babri Masjid demolition]] and the economic liberalisation pursued by the [[P. V. Narasimharao]] government. It continued to grow after the [[United Progressive Alliance]] came to power in 2003, trebling in membership to 3.175&nbsp;million members as of 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jnu-protests-jnusu-behind-abvp-confidence-govt-and-growth-rohith-vemula/ |title=JNU row: Behind ABVP's confidence, govt and growth |first=Deeptiman |last=Tiwary |publisher=The Indian Express |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref> It claims to be India's largest student organisation.<ref name="latimes1"/>
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 organisation had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> ABVP grew during the 1990s, receiving more support as a result of the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|Babri Masjid demolition]] and the economic liberalisation pursued by the [[P. V. Narasimharao]] government. It continued to grow after the [[United Progressive Alliance]] came to power in 2003, trebling in membership to 3.175&nbsp;million members as of 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jnu-protests-jnusu-behind-abvp-confidence-govt-and-growth-rohith-vemula/ |title=JNU row: Behind ABVP's confidence, govt and growth |first=Deeptiman |last=Tiwary |publisher=The Indian Express |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref> It claims to be India's largest student organisation.<ref name="latimes1"/>
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The ABVP's manifesto includes agendas such as educational and university reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3884573.ece |title=ABVP educational reforms |publisher=Thehindu.com |date=11 September 2012 |access-date=6 May 2013|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abvp.org/sfd|title=SFD|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The official ABVP magazine is ''Rashtriya Chhatrashakti'', which is published monthly in [[Hindi]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=80 |title=Обновление FLV Player |publisher=Abvp.org |access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref>
The ABVP's manifesto includes agendas such as educational and university reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3884573.ece |title=ABVP educational reforms |publisher=Thehindu.com |date=11 September 2012 |access-date=6 May 2013|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abvp.org/sfd|title=SFD|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The official ABVP magazine is ''Rashtriya Chhatrashakti'', which is published monthly in [[Hindi]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=80 |title=Обновление FLV Player |publisher=Abvp.org |access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref>


===Incidents===
===Violence===
ABVP has been attributed to multiple violent incidents on university and college campuses, like the [[2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack]].<ref name="HinduMasked20">{{cite news |title=As it happened: Masked goons strike terror in JNU, none arrested |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/live-updates-jnu-students-attacked-inside-campus-by-abvp-activists/article30486246.ece |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=5 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="ITBarged20">{{cite news |title=ABVP members barged into JNU hostels, attacked students with sticks, claims JNUSU |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/jawaharlal-nehru-university-sabarmati-hostel-abvp-jnusu-1634173-2020-01-05 |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=India Today |date=5 January 2020}}</ref> In some cases, members of the ABVP have been behind property destruction,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/ABVP-activists-go-on-the-rampage-on-college-premises/article14768437.ece|title=ABVP activists go on the rampage on college premises|date=25 May 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 November 2017|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/ABVP-activists-vandalise-DU-History-Department/article15173859.ece|title=ABVP activists vandalise DU History Department|date=26 February 2008|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 November 2017|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ranchi-students-boycott-classes-to-support-anna-abvp-cadres-ransack-missionary-school/1/148592.html |title= Jharkhand: ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest |publisher= India Today |date= 19 August 2011|access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130911164137/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 September 2013 |title= Right wing activists target Kashmiri film fest in Hyderabad |publisher= IBN-Live |date= 7 September 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/abvp-activists-ransack-narayana-college/article19973716.ece|title=ABVP 'activists' ransack Narayana college|date=3 November 2017|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 November 2017|others=Special Correspondent|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Banerjee |first1=Tamaghna |title=ABVP supporters commit arson at Jadavpur University gate, ransack rooms on campus |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/abvp-supporters-commit-arson-at-ju-gate-ransack-rooms-on-campus/articleshow/71209836.cms |access-date=23 September 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=20 September 2019}}</ref> while they were involved in violence in other cases,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030902054828/http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 September 2003|title=ABVP activists turn violent at CET Cell|access-date=10 November 2017|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=11 July 2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/Stone-throwing-during-protest-by-ABVP-in-Hubli-20-arrested/article14763604.ece|title=Stone throwing during protest by ABVP in Hubli; 20 arrested|date=15 May 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 November 2017|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/abvp-thrashes-ftii-student-for-not-saying-jai-narendra-modi/article5053110.ece |title= ABVP thrashes FTII student for not saying 'Jai Narendra Modi' |newspaper= The Hindu |date= 24 August 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014|last1= Byatnal |first1= Amruta }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/right-wing-hooligans-and-a-complicit-state |title= Right-wing hooligans and a complicit State |publisher= The Sunday Guardian |date= 24 August 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thewire.in/politics/amnesty-abvp-lathicharged|title=Protesting ABVP Students Lathicharged Outside Amnesty Office|website=The Wire}}</ref> even leading to the victims' deaths in some cases.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Prof-murder-two-ABVP-men-arrested/articleshow/1945429.cms|title=Prof murder: two ABVP men arrested|work=[[The Times of India]] | date=1 September 2006 | access-date=27 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/khandwa-prof-dies-after-abvp-assault/story-2C1A8OMZqPlFY63ZoJFfhP.html |title= Khandwa prof dies after ABVP assault|publisher= Hindustan Times |date= 12 March 2011 |access-date= 27 September 2018}}</ref>
ABVP has been accused to multiple violent incidents, including stone pelting,<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 May 2007|title=Stone throwing during protest by ABVP in Hubli; 20 arrested|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/Stone-throwing-during-protest-by-ABVP-in-Hubli-20-arrested/article14763604.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=11 July 2003|title=ABVP activists turn violent at CET Cell|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030902054828/http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|archive-date=2 September 2003}}</ref> arson,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Banerjee|first1=Tamaghna|date=20 September 2019|title=ABVP supporters commit arson at Jadavpur University gate, ransack rooms on campus|work=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/abvp-supporters-commit-arson-at-ju-gate-ransack-rooms-on-campus/articleshow/71209836.cms|access-date=23 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Protesting ABVP Students Lathicharged Outside Amnesty Office|website=The Wire|url=https://thewire.in/politics/amnesty-abvp-lathicharged}}</ref> vandalism<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=26 February 2008|title=ABVP activists vandalise DU History Department|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/ABVP-activists-vandalise-DU-History-Department/article15173859.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and physical assault,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Byatnal|first1=Amruta|date=24 August 2013|title=ABVP thrashes FTII student for not saying 'Jai Narendra Modi'|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/abvp-thrashes-ftii-student-for-not-saying-jai-narendra-modi/article5053110.ece|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> on college<ref>{{Cite news|others=Special Correspondent|date=3 November 2017|title=ABVP 'activists' ransack Narayana college|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/abvp-activists-ransack-narayana-college/article19973716.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=25 May 2007|title=ABVP activists go on the rampage on college premises|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/ABVP-activists-go-on-the-rampage-on-college-premises/article14768437.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and school campuses<ref>{{cite news|date=19 August 2011|title=Jharkhand: ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest|publisher=India Today|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ranchi-students-boycott-classes-to-support-anna-abvp-cadres-ransack-missionary-school/1/148592.html|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> and elsewhere,<ref name="HinduMasked20">{{cite news |title=As it happened: Masked goons strike terror in JNU, none arrested |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/live-updates-jnu-students-attacked-inside-campus-by-abvp-activists/article30486246.ece |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=5 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="ITBarged20">{{cite news |title=ABVP members barged into JNU hostels, attacked students with sticks, claims JNUSU |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/jawaharlal-nehru-university-sabarmati-hostel-abvp-jnusu-1634173-2020-01-05 |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=India Today |date=5 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130911164137/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 September 2013 |title= Right wing activists target Kashmiri film fest in Hyderabad |publisher= IBN-Live |date= 7 September 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/right-wing-hooligans-and-a-complicit-state |title= Right-wing hooligans and a complicit State |publisher= The Sunday Guardian |date= 24 August 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref> even leading to the victims' deaths in some cases.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Prof-murder-two-ABVP-men-arrested/articleshow/1945429.cms|title=Prof murder: two ABVP men arrested|work=[[The Times of India]] | date=1 September 2006 | access-date=27 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/khandwa-prof-dies-after-abvp-assault/story-2C1A8OMZqPlFY63ZoJFfhP.html |title= Khandwa prof dies after ABVP assault|publisher= Hindustan Times |date= 12 March 2011 |access-date= 27 September 2018}}</ref> Most notably, on 5 January 2020, according to the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union]], masked ABVP members attacked JNU students, smashing cars and pelted stones, while ABVP accused left wing organisations. ABVP later confessed the same on national media<ref>{{cite news |title=Listen in: ABVP Delhi State Jt Secretary 'explains' the video of alleged ABVP violence in JNU. |url=https://twitter.com/TimesNow/status/1214229897717010433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1214229897717010433&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthelogicalindian.com%2Fnews%2Fabvp-delhi-joint-secretary%2F |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=Times Now |publisher=Twitter |date=6 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Asked to Step Out With Rods, Acid': ABVP Delhi Joint Secretary Admits Its Men Were Armed in JNU |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/asked-to-step-out-with-rods-acid-abvp-delhi-joint-secretary-admits-its-men-were-armed-in-jnu-2448373.html |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=News18 |date=7 January 2020 }}</ref> and in a [[sting operation]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Akshat Awasthi not our member, claims ABVP after India Today sting exposes JNU violence |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-today-sting-operation-jawaharlal-nehru-university-violence-jnu-attackers-abvp-delhi-police-aishe-ghosh-1635757-2020-01-10 |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=The India Today |date=10 January 2020}}</ref> and the veracity of ABVP's involvement was also found out through [[investigative journalism]] which was later confirmed by Delhi Police.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Pratik |title=Investigating the masked woman photographed during JNU violence |url=https://www.altnews.in/investigating-the-masked-woman-photographed-during-jnu-violence/ |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=[[AltNews.in]] |date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/|last1=Malik|first1=Anukriti|date=7 January 2020|website=Newslaundry|language=en-UK|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thewire.in/government/jnu-masked-woman-komal-sharma-abvp-delhi-police-confirm |title=JNU Attack: Delhi Police Confirm Masked Woman Is ABVP Member Komal Sharma|access-date=2 February 2020 |work=The Wire |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> A total of 28 people were injured, including students and teachers.<ref name="HinduMasked20" /><ref name="ITBarged20" />
 
* 5, January 2020: According to the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union]], masked ABVP members attacked JNU students, smashing cars and pelted stones, while ABVP accused the left wing organisations. ABVP later confessed the same on national media<ref>{{cite news |title=Listen in: ABVP Delhi State Jt Secretary 'explains' the video of alleged ABVP violence in JNU. |url=https://twitter.com/TimesNow/status/1214229897717010433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1214229897717010433&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthelogicalindian.com%2Fnews%2Fabvp-delhi-joint-secretary%2F |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=Times Now |publisher=Twitter |date=6 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Asked to Step Out With Rods, Acid': ABVP Delhi Joint Secretary Admits Its Men Were Armed in JNU |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/asked-to-step-out-with-rods-acid-abvp-delhi-joint-secretary-admits-its-men-were-armed-in-jnu-2448373.html |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=News18 |date=7 January 2020 }}</ref> and in a [[sting operation]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Akshat Awasthi not our member, claims ABVP after India Today sting exposes JNU violence |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-today-sting-operation-jawaharlal-nehru-university-violence-jnu-attackers-abvp-delhi-police-aishe-ghosh-1635757-2020-01-10 |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=The India Today |date=10 January 2020}}</ref> and also the veracity of ABVP's involvement was found out through [[investigative journalism]] which was later confirmed by Delhi Police.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Pratik |title=Investigating the masked woman photographed during JNU violence |url=https://www.altnews.in/investigating-the-masked-woman-photographed-during-jnu-violence/ |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=[[AltNews.in]] |date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/|title=JNU violence: Masked girl in viral picture of mob attack is Delhi University student Komal Sharma?|last1=Malik|first1=Anukriti|date=7 January 2020|website=Newslaundry|language=en-UK|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=JNU Attack: Delhi Police Confirm Masked Woman Is ABVP Member Komal Sharma |url=https://thewire.in/government/jnu-masked-woman-komal-sharma-abvp-delhi-police-confirm |access-date=2 February 2020 |work=The Wire |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> A total of 28 people were injured, including students and teachers.<ref name="HinduMasked20" /><ref name="ITBarged20" />


== Initiatives ==
== Initiatives ==
=== Mission Sahasi ===
=== Mission Sahasi ===
ABVP conducts self-defense training program for girls titled "Mission Sahasi" all over India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Over 3,000 girls participate in ABVP’s ‘Mission Sahasi’|url=https://news.statetimes.in/over-3000-girls-participate-in-abvps-mission-sahasi/|access-date=2021-05-20|website=State Times|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/vijayawada/2019/dec/13/vijayawada-girls-showcase-skills-post-martial-arts-workshop-2075377.html|title=Vijayawada girls showcase skills post martial arts workshop|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/abvp-starts-mission-sahasi-for-safety-of-girls-676002|title=ABVP starts 'Mission Sahasi' for safety of girls|work=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>
ABVP conducts self-defense training program for girls titled "Mission Sahasi" all over India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Over 3,000 girls participate in ABVP's 'Mission Sahasi'|url=https://news.statetimes.in/over-3000-girls-participate-in-abvps-mission-sahasi/|access-date=2021-05-20|website=State Times|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/vijayawada/2019/dec/13/vijayawada-girls-showcase-skills-post-martial-arts-workshop-2075377.html|title=Vijayawada girls showcase skills post martial arts workshop|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/abvp-starts-mission-sahasi-for-safety-of-girls-676002|title=ABVP starts 'Mission Sahasi' for safety of girls|work=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>


=== Mission Aarogya ===
=== Mission Aarogya ===
ABVP conducted door-to-door screening in more than 100 slums of Delhi for COVID-19 symptoms and encouraged people to register for vaccination.<ref>{{Cite web|last=May 16|first=TNN /|last2=2021|last3=Ist|first3=04:45|title=ABVP plans drive to help slum residents {{!}} Delhi News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/abvp-plans-drive-to-help-slum-residents/articleshow/82667832.cms|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ABVP to start COVID-19 screening in 100 Delhi slums from May 16, asks 'neutral' students to join in|url=https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/may/14/abvp-to-start-covid-19-screening-in-100-delhi-slums-from-may-16-asks-neutral-students-to-join-in-20710.html|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The New Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Delhi: ABVP to conduct mass screening to trace coronavirus cases in slum areas|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/may/15/delhi-abvp-to-conduct-mass-screening-to-trace-coronavirus-cases-in-slum-areas-2302775.html|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>
ABVP conducted door-to-door screening in more than 100 slums of Delhi for Covid-19 symptoms and encouraged people to register for vaccination.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 16, 2021|title=ABVP plans drive to help slum residents |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/abvp-plans-drive-to-help-slum-residents/articleshow/82667832.cms|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ABVP to start COVID-19 screening in 100 Delhi slums from May 16, asks 'neutral' students to join in|url=https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/may/14/abvp-to-start-covid-19-screening-in-100-delhi-slums-from-may-16-asks-neutral-students-to-join-in-20710.html|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The New Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Delhi: ABVP to conduct mass screening to trace coronavirus cases in slum areas|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/may/15/delhi-abvp-to-conduct-mass-screening-to-trace-coronavirus-cases-in-slum-areas-2302775.html|access-date=2021-05-20|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>
 
==See also==
* [[National Students' Union of India]]
* [[Students' Federation of India]]
* [[All India Students Association]]


==References==
==References==

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Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)
AbbreviationABVP
Formation9 July 1949 (77 years ago) (1949-07-09)
TypeStudent wing
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Region served
India
Membership (2021-2022)
31,45,180[1]
National President
Chhaganbhai Patel
National General Secretary
Nidhi Tripathi
National Organising Secretary
Ashish Chauhan
Parent organization
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Websitewww.abvp.org


Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (transl. All Indian Student Council) is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).[2][3][4] It is India's third largest student organisation with more than three million members.[5]

History

The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS activist Balraj Madhok, was formally registered on 9 July 1949.[6] Its primary purpose was to counter communist propaganda on university campuses.[7] Yashwant Rao Kelkar, a lecturer in Bombay, became its main organiser 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'.[8]

Various branches of the ABVP have been involved in Hindu-Muslim communal riots since 1961.[9][10] However, in the 1970s, the ABVP also increasingly took on issues concerning the lower middle classes like corruption and government inertia.[9] 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.[11]

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 organisation had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.[9] ABVP grew during the 1990s, receiving more support as a result of the Babri Masjid demolition and the economic liberalisation pursued by the P. V. Narasimharao government. It continued to grow after the United Progressive Alliance came to power in 2003, trebling in membership to 3.175 million members as of 2016.[12] It claims to be India's largest student organisation.[5]

Links to the Bharatiya Janata Party

The ABVP spokesmen insist that the ABVP is not affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). They describe it the "student wing" of the RSS.[13] However, both the BJP and the ABVP are members of the Sangh Parivar, the RSS's "family of (affiliated) organisations".[14] The BJP is said to gain handsomely from the ABVP's support base and several politicians of the BJP, including the former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, had their ideological foundation in the ABVP.[15] Several scholars make no distinction between the RSS and the BJP, and regard the ABVP as a student wing of both of them or either of them.[16][17][18][19]

In 2017, the ABVP faced a string of losses in student body elections. They included not only Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University, but also the Allahabad University and Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth in Uttar Pradesh, the Gujarat University and the Gauhati University. The loss in the Kashi Vidyapeeth was considered especially significant since it is in Varanasi, the prime minister Narendra Modi's home constituency. This is said to have caused alarm in the BJP, which set up a committee to study the issues causing the ABVP's decline.[15][20] ABVP was able to resurge in the year 2018 by winning the key posts of president, vice-president and joint secretary of students polls of Delhi university.[21] ABVP won all the six seats in the Hyderabad Central University students union polls after eight years[22]

Activities

The ABVP's manifesto includes agendas such as educational and university reforms.[23] 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.[24] The official ABVP magazine is Rashtriya Chhatrashakti, which is published monthly in Hindi in New Delhi.[25]

Violence

ABVP has been accused to multiple violent incidents, including stone pelting,[26][27] arson,[28][29] vandalism[30] and physical assault,[31] on college[32][33] and school campuses[34] and elsewhere,[35][36][37][38] even leading to the victims' deaths in some cases.[39][40] Most notably, on 5 January 2020, according to the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union, masked ABVP members attacked JNU students, smashing cars and pelted stones, while ABVP accused left wing organisations. ABVP later confessed the same on national media[41][42] and in a sting operation,[43] and the veracity of ABVP's involvement was also found out through investigative journalism which was later confirmed by Delhi Police.[44][45][46] A total of 28 people were injured, including students and teachers.[35][36]

Initiatives

Mission Sahasi

ABVP conducts self-defense training program for girls titled "Mission Sahasi" all over India.[47][48][49]

Mission Aarogya

ABVP conducted door-to-door screening in more than 100 slums of Delhi for Covid-19 symptoms and encouraged people to register for vaccination.[50][51][52]

References

  1. ↑ "15 दिसंबर, 2021 तक अभाविप की सदस्यता का आंकड़ा 31,45,180 है: निधी त्रिपाठी". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. 24 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Nilanjana Bhowmick, India’s crackdown at college campuses is a threat to democracy, The Washington Post, 21 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Protests by BJYM, ABVP mar ICET counselling". The Hindu. 17 July 2007.
  4. ↑ Dubey, Priyanka (October 2017). "The age of ABVP". The Caravan. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Controversial student activists turn India's universities into ideological battlegrounds". LA Times. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7.
  7. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot (1 January 2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 47. ISBN 9789380607047.
  8. ↑ "About". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Mazumdar, Sucheta (21 April 2003). "Politics of religion and national origin". In Vasant Kaiwar; Sucheta Mazumdar (eds.). Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation. Duke University Press. p. 239. ISBN 0822330466.
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  11. ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (1 January 2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 193. ISBN 9789380607047.
  12. ↑ Tiwary, Deeptiman (24 February 2016). "JNU row: Behind ABVP's confidence, govt and growth". The Indian Express. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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  14. ↑ Spitz, Douglas (1993), "Cultural Pluralism, Revivalism, and Modernity in South Asia: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh", in Crawford Young (ed.), The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-state at Bay?, Univ of Wisconsin Press, pp. 242–264, ISBN 978-0-299-13884-4
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  17. ↑ Thapar, Romila (2014). "Banning Books". India Review. 13 (3): 283–286. doi:10.1080/14736489.2014.937277. S2CID 214654999.: "Thus, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), currently in power in India, demanded the removal of an essay by A. K. Ramanujan from the reading-list of the History syllabus for the BA Degree at Delhi University."
  18. ↑ Amaresh Misra, Growing Social Unrest, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 12 ( 22–28 Mar 1997), pp. 571-573, JSTOR 4405193: "To pre-empt this, the ABVP (the student wing of the RSS and the BJP) and allied forces let loose the spectre of violence which the administration, instead of controlling, instigated further."
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  21. ↑ "ABVP wins president's, two other posts in DUSU polls, NSUI one". The Economic Times. 14 September 2018.
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  24. ↑ "SFD". Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
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  27. ↑ "ABVP activists turn violent at CET Cell". The Hindu. 11 July 2003. Archived from the original on 2 September 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
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  29. ↑ "Protesting ABVP Students Lathicharged Outside Amnesty Office". The Wire.
  30. ↑ "ABVP activists vandalise DU History Department". The Hindu. 26 February 2008. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  31. ↑ Byatnal, Amruta (24 August 2013). "ABVP thrashes FTII student for not saying 'Jai Narendra Modi'". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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  34. ↑ "Jharkhand: ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest". India Today. 19 August 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 "As it happened: Masked goons strike terror in JNU, none arrested". The Hindu. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
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  37. ↑ "Right wing activists target Kashmiri film fest in Hyderabad". IBN-Live. 7 September 2013. Archived from the original on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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