Overview
- NSUI members, who gathered Friday at the university’s main gate in Jaipur, clashed with police during a protest and more than a dozen students were detained, with reports describing police action as everything from mild force to caning.
- The protest targeted a women’s empowerment seminar run by Marudhara Nari Sashaktikaran, a Rajasthan group linked to Bharatiya Stree Shakti, with senior RSS figure Ram Lal slated as keynote speaker.
- Vice Chancellor Alpana Kateja said the university only rented the Humanities auditorium to the organisers and had no official notice that the programme was an RSS event.
- The seminar went ahead under tight security as Congress leaders, including former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, demanded the students’ release and called the police response a curb on dissent.
- ABVP said hosting such programmes is a democratic right, reflecting a recurring tug-of-war on the campus since a similar RSS-linked ‘Shastra Pujan’ dispute in September 2025.