LUCKNOW, Sept. 5 -- Strongly condemning Monday's police lathicharge on their workers at Shri Ram Swaroop Memorial University, Barabanki, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has set a 48-hour ultimatum for the UP government to ensure punitive action against all those, including the university administration, involved in the incident even as it termed it an assault on the democratic values.

The ABVP workers will stage demonstrations in district centres across the state to lodge their protest. "If our demands are not met within the set time limit, the student body will be forced to launch a statewide agitation to expose the nexus between police, bureaucrats and the college management," said ABVP national secretary Ankit Shukla at ...