A clash broke out between Left-backed groups and ABVP at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here over the selection of election committee members, police said on Friday.

The ruckus erupted at the School of Languages Thursday night, they said.

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According to police, they received PCR calls on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday regarding the scuffle at GBM in the varsity.

They said multiple complaints have been received in this matter and the allegations are being verified.

Meanwhile, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said strict action will be taken against those found involved.

Students from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Left-backed groups have filed complaints against each other.

Taking to social media, the ABVP Delhi unit has condemned the incident and alleged, “Common Students who came to attend SL School GBM at School of Languages were brutally attacked with sharp objects by LEFTIST GOONS. Just because they were asking for a fair chance to participate and vote in the school GBM. Some students faced severe injuries.”

Meanwhile, the All India Students’ Association (AISA) accused the BJP-led group of violence, saying “ABVP lumpens once again unleash violence on students during the SLL&CS GBM”.

“…Left students were attempting to rig the election process. The students of the School of Language raised an objection…The entire process was halted for more than three to four hours… When the process was reconvened, Aishe Ghosh (JNU president) announced four communist names and said that they had been elected. The workers demanded the names be disclosed and the selection process,” ABVP JNU president Umesh Chandra Ajmeera claimed.

“Danish (AISF member) said that not four but only two old members have been chosen again. Aishe and Danish said contradictory things. Students were raising objections…Demands were made to disclose the names and conduct the selection through a free and fair process. The Left students then started attacking students by using ‘dafli’ (daf)…,” he told reporters.

AISA JNU vice president said, “First of all, this was not a clash. This is a one-sided attack… Every school has been conducting a General Body Meeting (GBM) since the last two weeks, the last GBM was yesterday. The election body of the School Language was supposed to be elected yesterday. Four names were elected but the ABVP hijacked the entire process.

“When it resumed and the process concluded…we came to know that they had surrounded Danish (AISA) and were not letting him leave. We tried to speak with them but they didn’t listen to us and started to launch an attack with sticks…They also hit me on my head…They do this under the protection of VC and the Police,” she added.

The students have also announced a protest march in the hostel premises in the evening against the incident.