NSUI blackens bust of Savarkar installed by ABVP led DUSU at DU

Delhi | Thursday | 22nd August, 2019

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New Delhi: The Congress-affiliated NSUI on Thursday said it blackened the bust of Veer Savarkar and garlanded those of Bhagat Singh and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Delhi University. The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad-led Delhi University Students' Union had installed the busts outside the Arts Faculty building inside the DU campus on Tuesday. In a video of the incident, NSUI Delhi wing president Akshay Lakra can be seen garlanding the busts of Bose and Singh and bowing before them. Lakra then blackens the bust and shouts 'Bhagat Singh zindabad' and 'NSUI zindabad'. "How could they put the bust of Savarkar alongside Bose and Bhagat Singh, that too overnight..