ABVP vice-president in JNU resigns over ‘regressive’ party stand on issues

NEW DELHI: Jatin Goraiya, vice-president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at JNU, resigned from his post on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Jatin Goraiya, vice-president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at JNU, resigned from his post on Friday.

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Goraiya said he took the decision due to the ‘regressive’ stand taken by the party over issues like Rohit Vemula’s suicide, the February 9 event at JNU and the Dalits upsurge in Una, Gujarat.

He termed the ABVP as an organisation built on principles of inequality and discrimination .

The resignation comes at a time when JNU student union elections are round the corner. “I resign from the post of vice-president of ABVP, and disassociate myself from the casteist, farcical and patriarchal organisation. The conduct of ABVP has explicitly revealed their manipulative fascist and conservative face,” said Goraiya, a Phd scholar of Russian Studies.

He added that he had no plans of joining any other political outfit.

He was one of the students who burnt pages from the‘Manusmriti’ on the university campus, during a protest against “anti-Dalit and anti-women” tenets of the ancient text, months ago. “The way they were trying to portray the institutional murder of Rohit Vemula as suicide and safeguard the people involved in it, shows they have never been committed to the principles of social justice. Brahmanisim and conservative nationalism is intrinsically engrained in their very ideology,” Goraiya said.

During the February 9 incident, three students who were part of the unit had quit the party. Goraiya said he will work to defeat the organisation in the JNUSU elections.

“My resignation is a tribute to the principles of Rohit Vemula,” he said.