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Punjab Politics Heats Up Over LPU Row: Who is Behind the All-Round Attack on AAP, Road Blockades, and Vandalism?
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News18•29-09-2026, 09:25
Punjab Politics Heats Up Over LPU Row: Who is Behind the All-Round Attack on AAP, Road Blockades, and Vandalism?
- •BJP accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of involvement in violence at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab.
- •LPU students vandalized property and blocked the Jalandhar-Phagwara highway, claiming an outsider allegedly raped a female student.
- •Rajya Sabha member Ashok Mittal, who recently left AAP for BJP, is the founding chancellor of LPU.
- •BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari alleged police lathi-charging students at LPU on instructions from AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, and Bhagwant Mann.
- •Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal alleged arson and violence at LPU were due to AAP's malicious acts, a "revenge" for Ashok Mittal joining BJP.
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Students staged protests and blocked a section of the Jalandhar-Phagwara highway after claiming that an outsider had allegedly raped a female student on the university campus a few days prior.
The BJP accused the Aam Rajput and AAP leadership, including Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann, of orchestrating violence and ordering the police to lathi-charge students at LPU as part of a larger political conspiracy.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal alleged that the disturbance was an act of revenge by AAP to punish LPU founding chancellor and Rajya Sabha member Ashok Mittal for leaving AAP and joining the BJP.
