{"id":56241,"date":"2020-01-13T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=56241"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:27:48","slug":"abvp-jnu-secretary-denies-masked-woman-in-viral-video-associated-with-abvp-visual-evidence-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/abvp-jnu-secretary-denies-masked-woman-in-viral-video-associated-with-abvp-visual-evidence-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"ABVP JNU secretary denies masked woman in viral video associated with ABVP, visual evidence disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 11, India Today’s <\/em>Rahul Kanwal questioned Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) JNU secretary Manish Jangid about Komal Sharma after a masked photograph of her inside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus during the January 5 attack went viral. Jangid was questioned about Sharma’s affiliation with ABVP, to which he said, “No she is not ABVP.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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#JNUTapes<\/a> | Komal Sharma is not member of ABVP: Manish Jangid, ABVP’s JNU unit secretary.@rahulkanwal<\/a>
\nMore videos at https:\/\/t.co\/wMGGKJy9GN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gF2M0fbUDK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 India Today (@IndiaToday) January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jangid’s response to Kanwal during\u00a0India Today\u00a0<\/em>broadcast was retweeted by\u00a0ABVP’s official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n

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ABVP had earlier denied association with another student Akshat Awashti who had declared himself as an ABVP activist and confessed his involvement in the attack during a sting operation. Alt News found<\/a> a plethora of photographs and videos of Awasthi in ABVP rallies, with ABVP office-bearers, chanting pro-ABVP slogans.<\/p>\n

In this report, we will lay down a similar pattern in the case of Komal Sharma – a trail of evidence from the past that links her with the RSS-affiliated student body.<\/p>\n

Komal Sharma and her association with ABVP<\/h2>\n

A school senior of Komal Sharma had uploaded an Instagram conversation where Sharma confessed her presence inside JNU campus on the night of the attack. In an earlier investigation, Alt News found multiple social media profiles of Sharma [Facebook (1<\/a>,2<\/a>), Instagram<\/a> and Twitter (1<\/a>,2<\/a>)], where she declared her affiliation with ABVP.<\/p>\n

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Alt News has now discovered visual evidence of her association with ABVP.<\/p>\n

On September 13, ABVP swept<\/a> the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections by 3-1 against Indian National Congress’s student wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI). In the video<\/a> below, Komal Sharma can be seen celebrating ABVP’s electoral victory in DUSU elections. Speaking to the press she says, “We are so happy with this win. I regret that we didn’t get that one seat but we are happy that we won by 3-1. ABVP has once again won. Win or loss, there can be only one thing. Now that we have won, they have to lose and ABVP is such an organization that works for 365 days and not only during the election period. We want to congratulate all the workers of the organization because every activist works for 365 days with the same dedication as during the elections.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that she refers to herself as “we”, a voice of the student body and not an individual.<\/p>\n