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 would 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.
“Following the attack on other students, my friends told me that we have to jump from the balcony to save ourselves and then I climbed from the balcony with them,” he said.
Samar further said that he took refuge at the residence of friends in nearby Munirka till morning and then returned to the varsity campus in the afternoon on Monday.
Samar also alleged that the Delhi Police remained mute spectators when the ABVP students were beating the Left wing students and they also had the sticks which were provided to the police.
