University student takes on student political party with viral online campaign, gets rape threats

A 20-year-old scholar from Delhi College (DU) has been receiving rape threats on social media, in accordance with reports.

Gurmehar Kaur, a scholar of Woman Shri Ram School, has been viciously attacked by right-wingers for beginning an internet marketing campaign towards ABVP, the scholar wing of India's ruling political social gathering, which clashed with college students and journalists in a metropolis school on Wednesday.

Kaur took a stand towards the difficulty and got here underneath the face of assault. “I've been getting lots of threats on social media. I feel it is extremely scary when individuals threaten you with violence or with rape,” she advised an area tv station. 

All of it started when Kaur, who's additionally the daughter of a martyred Indian soldier, put up this publish on Fb. Her placard learn: “I'm a scholar from Delhi College. I'm not afraid of ABVP. I'm not alone. Each scholar of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP”. 

"The stones that you simply pelt hit our our bodies, however fail to bruise our concepts. This profile image is my method of protesting towards the tyranny of worry," she wrote within the standing.

The marketing campaign went viral very quickly with a number of college students placing up comparable posts and calling out the menace posed by ABVP. 

One other of Kaur's posts learn: "The brutal assault on harmless college students by ABVP could be very disturbing and must be stopped. It was not an assault on protesters, however an assault on each notion of democracy that's held pricey in each Indian's coronary heart. It's an assault on beliefs, morals, freedom and rights of each individual born to this nation." 

She additionally put up a collection of placards with the #StudentsAgainstABVP hashtag.

One got here beneath specific consideration. It learn: Pakistan didn't kill my Dad. Struggle killed him. (A reference to the 1998 Indo-Pak war in Kargil by which her father Captain Mandeep Singh misplaced his life.)

Kaur got here beneath a facetious assault from former India cricketer Virender Sehwag, who's turn into some sort of a Twitter star of late, in addition to a Bollywood actor who referred to as her a "political pawn". 

Twitter erupted. Lot of help poured in for Kaur and she or he was lauded for being "robust".

Kaur herself objected to being referred to as a pawn. She stated: "I can assume."

And clarified that folks needn't name her a martyr's daughter.

Extra sadly, she even admitted to liking the aforementioned actor's movie.

A wave of anti-ABVP protests has swept DU schools.