'Send 40-50 Students With 2 Teachers': J&K Govt's Order to Poonch Education Dept for ABVP Rally
24 January 2025 | The Wire
On January 23, several students and teachers participated in a ‘Tiranga’ rally organised by Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarti Parishad (ABVP) in Poonch of Jammu and Kashmir. A day before the rally, the J&K administration had ordered the education department in the Poonch district to ensure the participation of students and teachers in it.
The issue has stoked fresh controversy in J&K with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleging that the National Conference government was forcing the students to attend the ABVP’s “ideological event” while blaming it for using “education as a propaganda tool”…