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Sources in ABVP say the brief was clear — give protection to Nepali students in Odisha and be seen on the right side of the fence in the larger scheme of things
By Tuesday, while arrests were made, ABVP protests spread to other parts of Odisha as well. (News18)
Much before 20-year-old Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal’s suicide at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University in Odisha snowballed into an international crisis, New Delhi pre-emptively coordinated for swift action, with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad — the students’ wing of the RSS — and the state BJP playing a crucial role.
Ahead of the Nepal embassy…