NSUI ABVP clash at COEP hostel before Rahul Gandhi event
India
A fight broke out on Friday between student groups NSUI and ABVP at COEP Technological University's hostel in Pune, just before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Chhatron ki Gunj event.
Police were deployed in large numbers on the campus following the incident.
ABVP and Congress accuse each other
Both sides are blaming each other: ABVP says Congress supporters pressured female students to sign up for the event, while Congress leaders claim ABVP members threatened two girls who backed the event and spoke about scholarship issues.
Senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar even stopped by the hostel to call out what he called intimidation.
This all highlights how tense things get between these rival student groups around big political events.