Insaaf Times Desk

Volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) held a march outside Gates 7 and 8 of Jamia Millia Islamia University. The march was organized to mark the centenary year of the RSS. Volunteers, dressed in white shirts and dark trousers and carrying sticks, demonstrated physical training and marched in formation as symbols of discipline and the organization’s ideology.

Following the event, students and various student organizations criticized the march. Students perceived it as a communal symbol outside the university campus and said it contradicted the institution’s religious and cultural diversity. The student organization ‘Students Federation of India’ (SFI) condemned the march, calling it a threat to the academic environment. The organization described the march as an attempt to intimidate and instill fear.

The incident has reignited debates around student politics and religious identity issues in Delhi’s universities. While the RSS described it as a promotion of cultural awareness and nationalism, students saw it as a form of communal assertion and an attack on the university’s autonomy.

In response to the event, the university administration has tightened security measures and appealed to students to maintain peace. However, the march has sparked a new discussion on religious and cultural identity within Delhi’s educational institutions, which is expected to intensify in the coming days.

Thus, the RSS march outside Jamia Millia Islamia was not merely a cultural event; it has become a catalyst for renewed debate on religious and cultural identity issues within the university campus.