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At JNU main gate. Lights are off. Lots of cops on riot gear. A right wing gathering yelling slogans.
Tried to take video of what was happening a little away from the gate, where more right wingers have gathered.

Got surrounded by folks calling me a naxalwadi, demanded my phone because I had my phone up and started shoving around. One knock to the head.
(all fine myself but super tense here).
Right wing crowd is demanding to be let in to take on the "naxalwadis", cops aren't letting anyone in.
Yogendra Yadav manhandled by right wing crowd at gate as well

Media and some JNU students have collected at the West gate, after teachers put out a call from inside (since they were unable to speak) as more right wing-ers amass at North Gate.
India Today journalists also had to face the mob at North gate
Lights back on now in the road. JNU students opposed to the right-wing crowd marching to the main gate.
Leftist JNU students and others against the Right chant outside the main gate of JNU where a right wing mob had gathered just a little earlier but has dispersed (now that lights are on).

Needless to say, no one has any problem with taking videos.
Students outside JNU are chanting 'Godi Media Go Back' to a Republic reporter.

Unlike the earlier crowd that physically attacked us, here they were only using slogans and chanting.
I seem to have forked the threads, so in case you're looking for more, rest here
I've left the spot but my colleague @KarnikaKohli saw the gate finally being forced open by JNU students after students from inside marched down to it as well.
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