Twitter folk back Kargil martyr’s kid who’s “Not afraid of ABVP”

Days after students, teachers and journalists accused the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad of unleashing violence at Ramjas College in Delhi University’s North Campus, while protesting an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar, a Lady Sri Ram College student who is a Kargil martyr's daughter has initiated a social media campaign, "I am not afraid of ABVP", which has gone viral.

Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, changed her Facebook profile picture holding a placard which read "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP".

"The brutal attack on innocent students by ABVP is very disturbing and should be stopped. It was not an attack on protesters, but an attack on every notion of democracy that is held dear in every Indian's heart. It is an attack on ideals, morals, freedom and rights of every person born to this nation," she said in a Facebook status.

"The stones that you pelt hit our bodies, but fail to bruise our ideas. This profile picture is my way of protesting against the tyranny of fear," she added.

The literature student's classmates and peers started sharing the post, prompting students from various universities across the country to change their profile pictures with the same placard, as the initiative went viral.

Kaur's Facebook post so far has 2,100 reactions, 3,456 shares and 542 comments.

On Saturday, Twitter saw a flood of support for Kaur as a journalist demanded she protest not just ABVP but also “anti-national slogans” supposedly shouted by students at Ramjas College. Many senior journalists’ came out in Kaur’s support and protested the trolling of the student.

With PTI inputs.