NEW DELHI - At least 23 people were hurt at a prestigious Indian university on Sunday (Jan 5) in what police said were clashes between rival student groups but which an opposition politician blamed on a student organisation linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Unverified videos on social media appeared to show a group of several masked attackers roaming the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi wielding batons as students screamed.
"Today evening, two groups clashed with each other and some students are injured," a senior Delhi police officer told journalists.
"The university administration has requested the police to enter (the campus)," the officer said, adding, "things are under control right now."
Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India, called the attack a "collusion" between the JNU administration and "goons" of a student group linked to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"It is a planned attack by those in power, which is afraid of the resistance provided by JNU," Yechury said.
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