HC okays ABVP Ranabheri for today

Hyderabad, Jan 22:  The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday allowed the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party, to go-ahead with their proposed ‘Vidyarthi Ranabheri’, but not without specific conditions.The High Court directed the police authorities to screen participants with valid identity cards as students before allowing them into the Nizam College Grounds, the venue of the Ranabheri, scheduled for Saturday.

The ABVP leaders have also been directed by the High Court against delivering provocative speeches at the Vidyarthi Ranabheri.The ABVP students supporting Telangana statehood, earlier in the day, moved the High Court seeking its intervention after the state government declined to permit them to hold the students meeting. Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sushma Swaraj who was supposed to attend the Ranabheri, may alter her plans in the light of the High Court ruling against the participation of politicians at the Ranabheri.

The student group has been insisting that it is within its democratic right to hold public congregations and express opinions with regard to separate state formation. The students were also planning to mobilize thousands of students from different parts of Telangana for the Vidyarthi Ranabheri.Several pro-Telangana organizations and political parties have urged the Government to permit ABVP to hold the meeting.