HISTORY
The ABVP was started by students in 1948, a year after Indian Independence, with the objective of channeling students' energy toward the task of national reconstruction. It was founded by a group of students and teachers, and was registered on 9 July 1949. Its growth process was slow and sporadic in its first few years, but accelerated after Professor Yeshwantrao Kelkar, a lecturer inBombay, became its main organiser in 1958. He built the organisation into what it is now, and is considered to be the real architect of the ABVP.[4]The ABVP gradually spread its work across various universities in India.[5] Contrary to the popular perception that it is the student wing of BJP, ABVP is actually the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS).[6][7] It was founded before BJP. However, it participates in joint activities with BJP's official youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.[8]
ACTIVITIES
The group runs projects and programmes aimed at national integration and using social consciousness to solve economic and other problems. They also run programmesdesigned to improve the abilities of individual students, including
1 It also campaigns for educational and university reforms[10] and competes in student-body elections in colleges and universities to achieve these goals.Book-Bank
- Students' Vacation Employment Bureau
- First Class First Felicitation functions
- Inter-collegiate and inter-university music competitions
- Painting competitions
- Literary competitions
- Student writers' meets
- Sports meets
- Social participation camps
- Personality development camps
- Technical, Medical, Management, and Agri student workshops
- Technical exhibitions
- Indo-foreign Students' Bureau
- Study circles and art circles
- My Home is India
FORUMES INITIATED BY ABVP
- World Organisation of Students and Youth (WOSY)
- Students for Development (SFD)[11]
- Student's Experience in Interstate Living (SEIL)
AREAS OF INFLUENCE
Though ABVP is active throughout India, it is most prominent in North India, where Hindu nationalism is strong. It also has considerable influence in Central India and states bordering Bangladesh.
The ABVP has a strong base in the universities in Delhi and North India. It includes students from all the academic institutions of India - from schools to colleges, from professional institutions to research academies. ABVP also have strong base in universities like University of Hyderabad, University of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan.
CONTROVERSIES, ATTACKs & VANDALISM
ABVP has been in news regularly due to its violent strategies and right-wing extremism.
- 23 April 2011 : Student activists of ABVP attacked the anchors of MTV's Roadies show in Pune.[12][13]
- 18 August 2011 : ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest in Jharkhand.[14]
- 26 January 2012 : ABVP membres set ablaze reels of Telugu film 'Businessman (film)' on the Osmania University campus.[15]
- 29 January 2012 : ABVP protested against the screening of Sanjay Kak's documentary Jashn-e-Azadi, forcing Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune to indefinitely postpone the seminar Voices of Kashmir.[16][17][18]
- 14 April 2012 : ABVP members attacked Beef Festival in Osmania University.[19]
- 24 August 2013 : After the screening of Jai Bhim Comrade and the performance by Kabir Kala Manch, ABVP attacked students of Film and Television Institute of India, Puneand KKM members blaming them as Naxalite, and asked them to say Jai Narendra Modi.[20][21]
- 7 September 2013 : A Kashmiri film fest was targeted by the group of right wing extremists in Hyderabad. A group of ABVP workers entered the venue just few hours after the programme started and indulged in vandalism.[22]
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