Had to escape from JNU campus: Shashi Bhushan Samar

New Delhi: Shashi Bhushan Samar, a visually challenged student and the face of fee hike protest, on Monday, said that he escaped the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening during the violence after jumping off the hostel room from the second floor with the help of other students as the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students were having the list of Left-wing students.

Speaking to IANS, Samar, who grabbed the limelight during the fee-hike protest, said, “I was in the admin block when two of my friends told me to run from here as the ABVP guys were beating the Left-wing students.”

He said that he asked his friends to run from there as they would have been beaten by them because of him.

“But both of my friends told me that they shall run with me. And then we reached the Sabarmati hostel. But there also the ABVP students barged into the hostel and started beating the students based on the list they had with them,” he said. (IANS)

Also Read: Masked Goons beat up JNU students and teachers brutally; political blame game begin

Also Watch: Torch Relay of 3rd Khelo India Youth Games received by District Administration in Kokrajhar