By IANS
Bhopal : Two persons were arrested Saturday for allegedly beating up a college principal and his family in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district due to differences over holding student union polls.
Five activists of the students’ body Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) allegedly beat up Shiv Charan Chaurasia, a government college principal Friday night in Tikamgarh, about 300 km from here. They did not spare Chourasia’s family either, beating up his wife and children before ransacking the house.
“Of the five, two have been arrested and the police is looking for the other three,” Tikamgarh superintendent of police Anurag told IANS by phone.
None of them were students, but it is yet to be ascertained whether they are workers of ABVP, he said.
“ABVP workers led by its district unit general secretary Shailendra Awasthi forcibly entered my Rajmahal colony house at about 10.30 pm Friday by breaking the door and beat me and my three daughters and wife,” Chourasia said in his first information report (FIR).
The ABVP workers were reportedly annoyed over the measures enforced by Chourasia for conducting the student union polls slated for Aug 23-24 all over the state.
The principal removed the erstwhile in-charge of campus polls A.K. Chaturvedi and decided to conduct the polls himself. This angered the ABVP and instigated the attack.
ABVP is the students’ wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Chaturvedi is understood to be close to the BJP.
Chourasia in his complaint alleged that one of the accused was carrying a pistol while others were armed with sticks and rods. The five accused in the FIR are Shailendra Awasthi, Deshraj Dogare, Kunal Chaturvedi, Vishesh Soni and Sunil Yadav.
Last year on Aug 26, H.S. Sabharwal, a professor in Ujjain’s Madhav College was allegedly beaten to death by ABVP workers following cancellation of student union polls.