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Tension escalated astatine Rajasthan University present connected Friday (April 3, 2026) arsenic the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) members clashed with the constabulary during their protestation against a disputed lawsuit linked to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organised connected the campus. Police detained implicit a twelve students and took them away.
The pupil helping of the Opposition Congress took objection to a programme being organised by Marudhara Nari Sashaktikaran Sangathan astatine the humanities auditorium connected the assemblage campus, saying it was meant to beforehand the RSS ideology connected the pretext of deliberating connected women’s empowerment.
Senior RSS pracharak Ram Lal was scheduled to present keynote code astatine the seminar. The NSUI activists staged a monolithic protest, saying the assemblage should supply abstraction for acquisition and captious reasoning alternatively than offering a level for “political propaganda” to the organisations similar the RSS.
The protesters assembled astatine the university’s entranceway gross and climbed connected the barricades acceptable up by the police, portion raising slogans amid scuffles with the policemen. Heavy information forces, including riot power vehicles, were deployed connected the spot, and the constabulary unit utilized mild unit to disperse the NSUI workers.
NSUI person Amardeep Parihar, who led the protest, demanded an contiguous cancellation of the scheduled programme, portion pointing retired that a akin ‘Shastra Pujan’ lawsuit organised by the RSS connected the field connected September 30, 2025, had led to a large confrontation and exposed the assemblage administration’s effort to power the world environment.
Vice-Chancellor Alpana Kateja said successful a connection that the assemblage had lone rented retired the auditorium to a women’s organisation for holding a seminar. “Rajasthan University has nary authoritative accusation astir the programme being conducted arsenic an RSS-sponsored event,” Prof. Kateja said.
The Marudhara Nari Sashaktikaran Sangathan is simply a Rajasthan-based organisation, operating arsenic a State portion affiliated with the Bharatiya Stree Shakti, which forms portion of the larger ideological household oregon ‘Sangh Parivar’ of the RSS.
Senior Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, Govind Singh Dotasra and Tika Ram Jully condemned the usage of unit against the protesters and the detention of NUSI leaders and activists. Demanding the merchandise of the detained NSUI workers, Mr. Gehlot said the suppression of protestation against the imposition of RSS ideology successful the assemblage reflected the BJP Government’s “frustration and dictatorial mindset”.
