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Here are a few examples of the constructive work orchestrated by youthful, dynamic and talented teams of #ABVP since their formation in 1949

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11 July 2003: 12 policemen were injured when 300 members of the ABVP committed vandalism and assault during a protest concerning college admissions following the Common Entrance Test, in Karnataka

1 September 2005: Members of the ABVP attempted to enter the Secretariat of the Andhra Pradesh State Government in Hyderabad by force, resulting in police action against them. Several ABVP members were injured.

26 August 2006: Members of the ABVP beat Prof. Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal and two other professors of Madhav college, Ujjain during students union polls. Prof.Sabharwal died on the spot due to cardiac arrest.

15 May 2007: 20 people, including ABVP members, were arrested for throwing stones during a protest against admission fees at Chetana Pre-University College in Hubli, Karnataka.

25 May 2007: ABVP members protesting admission policies at Marimallappa College in Karnataka destroyed college property and were involved in a scuffle with college authorities. Six members of the ABVP were arrested as a consequence.

26 February 2008: Members of the ABVP vandalized the Delhi University's History Department, protesting the inclusion of an essay by scholar and linguist A.K. Ramanujan, in the B.A. History syllabus. They were also alleged to have assaulted a history professor there.

27 April 2009: Hitesh Chauhan, a member and M.P. university election candidate of the ABVP, attempted to assault then-PM MMS by throwing a shoe at him. He was detained by the police but was released after Dr. Singh declined to pursue charges against him and recommended his releas

9 March 2011 : ABVP members attacked Prof. Sundar Singh Thakur and Prof. Ashok Choudhary. Prof. Sundar Singh Thakur died of a heart attack few days later.

18 August 2011 : ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest in Jharkhand

29 January 2012 : ABVP protested against the screening of Sanjay Kak's documentary Jashn-e-Azadi, forcing Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune to indefinitely postpone the seminar Voices of Kashmir

24 August 2013 : After the screening of Jai Bhim Comrade and the performance by Kabir Kala Manch, ABVP attacked students of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and KKM members blaming them as Naxalite, and asked them to say "Jai Narendra Modi"

7 September 2013 : A Kashmiri film fest was allegedly targeted by the group of right-wing extremists in Hyderabad. A group of ABVP workers entered the venue just few hours after the programme started and indulged in vandalism

2 August 2015: Members of the ABVP stopped a screening of a documentary Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai on the 2013 riots in Muzaffarnagar. The ABVP claimed that the documentary, titled 'Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai' hurt their religious sentiments

In August 2016, ABVP volunteers filed a complaint against Amnesty international for hosting an event in Bangalore seeking justice for victims of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. They held a violent protest outside the office.many of them getting arrested by the polic

13 October 2017: 70 ABVP members were detained by the police in Bengaluru, after they attempted, along with members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, to lay siege to Vidhana Soudha (the seat of legislature in Karnataka)

3 November 2017: Members of the ABVP vandalized the office of Narayana Junior College, Narayanaguda (in Andhra Pradesh), during a protest. They also vandalized a police car

9 November 2017: 18 members of the ABVP were arrested in Calicut, Kerala by members of the Railway Protection Force for travelling without tickets, locking the door of a train compartment and preventing other passengers from boarding, creating disruptions, and ..

misusing the emergency stop brake. They were fined a sum of Rs. 11,250 for travelling without tickets.

27 February 2018: A workshop on the role of media organised by the students' union of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University, where Teesta Setalvad
 was invited to participate, was blocked by ABVP activists with active support from the local police

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