I Got Rape Threats For Calling Out ABVP, Says Kargil Martyr's Daughter

New Delhi: The cracks in her voice do not impair the
statement that she makes but they do commission a 
moment of thought. Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Captain Mandeep Singh who was killed in the 1999 Kargil War, has said she has received a barrage of threats including of rape after she spoke out against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP, a student union linked to the ruling BJP, over the violence at Delhi's Ramjas College on Wednesday.


"I've been getting a lot of threats on social media. When 
you open the profile picture that I changed, you keep 
seeing there are people threatening me and calling me an 
anti-nationalist. I think it's very scary when people threaten you with violence or with rape. There is this guy called Rahul and he's given a very detailed explanation in a comment saying how he would like to rape me. That is very scary," she said on NDTV's show We The People tonight.

Clashes had erupted on the campus of Ramjas College
between groups of students after the ABVP objected to
 an event invitation to Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid, accused of sedition over an event last year where anti- India slogans were allegedly raised.

A 140-word Facebook post and a picture that she put out
hours after the clashes went viral. In the picture, the Lady 
Sri Ram College student held a handwritten placard that
 read: "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid
 of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me.


But the messages of solidarity to her post also 
accompanied a torrent of ugly abuse. The post has been shared nearly 3,000 times and received more than 1,000 comments in four days.