Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad

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The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ( ABVP , Hindi अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद , " All Indian Student Council") is the student organization of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In the period 2014/15 the ABVP had more than 3.2 million members.

history

The ABVP was registered with the authorities in New Delhi as a student organization on July 9, 1949, shortly after India gained independence . A major contributor to the founding was Balraj Madhok , an RSS activist and teacher who believed that the RSS needed to expand its influence on universities in order to counter the spreading communist activities . The RSS itself had been banned as an organization for one year after the murder of Mohandas Gandhi by a Hindu nationalist. It should be the task of the ABVP to represent and disseminate the ideas of the RSS at universities and to bring like-minded lecturers and students together. In the first few years the organization grew only slowly until Yeshwantrao Kelkar , a lecturer from Bombay , took over the management in 1958 and developed the ABVP into the organization it is today. Gradually, the ABVP expanded its activities to all of India.

Activities and criticism

The declared aim of the ABVP is to promote the national integration of India and the solution of social and economic problems on the basis of the Hindu nationalist worldview. To this end, the ABVP participates in elections for student interest groups and organizes various programs for students, e.g. B. book exchanges, student employment agencies, sporting events, music events, student exchanges, etc. Ä. m. Interest politics and party politics are seen as a necessary part of society, but formally the ABVP sees itself as independent of parties and emphasizes that it is not the arm or part of a political party, but the "student arm of the RSS". The ABVP, however, belongs to the so-called Sangh Parivar , ie the family of Hindu nationalist organizations from the RSS environment, which have close ties to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Many ABVP members are also BJP partisans and many leading BJP politicians were former ABVP activists.

In the past there were repeated conflicts and violent clashes with student groups with different ideological orientations, for example the All India Students Association , the student organization of the Marxist-Leninist CPI (ML) L , the Students' Federation of India , the corresponding organization of the CPI (M ) or the National Students' Union of India , the student organization of the Congress Party .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrolled 10 lakh new members in last one year: ABVP. The Indian Express, November 19, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b History. ABVP website, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Craig Baxter: The Jana Sangh - A Biography of an Indian Political Party . Oxford University Press, Bombay 1971, ISBN 0-8122-7583-7 , II. The Political Ancestor: The Hindu Mahasabha, III. The Ideological and Organizational Ancestor: The RSS, p. 6–30 (English).
  4. ↑ Smriti Kak Ramachandran: The rise of ABVP and why it attracts the youth. Hindustan Times, March 9, 2017, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot : The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India . Columbia Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-231-10334-4 , pp. 127 (English).
  6. ↑ a b About. ABVP website, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad is not the students' wing of BJP: Shreehari Borikar. ABVP website, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ravish Tiwari: Here is why ABVP has enough clout in Modi government. The Economic Times, February 23, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ Prashant Jha: Inside the ABVP: Chartering the growth of the controversial 'Parishad'. Hindustan Times, February 20, 2016, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Nayanika Singhal, Amardeep Kumar: Delhi: Clash breaks out between ABVP, AISA members during seminar on Article 370 in JNU. indiatoday.in, October 3, 2019, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Left candidates: ABVP members tore our papers. The Times of India, September 5, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ DUSU polls 2019: NSUI candidate alleges assault, but ABVP files police complaint. Hindustan Times, September 10, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .