Along with Savarkar, statues of Subhas Bose and Bhagat Singh were also installed

National Students' Union of India (NSUI) leaders put a shoe garland around the statue of Veer Savarkar and blackened its face midnight today.

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has put the statue outside the gate of the varsity's Arts Faculty in North campus on Tuesday morning without DU administration permission.

The statues were put up by ABVP-led Delhi University Students' Union President Shakti Singh without approval from the Delhi University administration.

Shakti Singh said that they had approached the administration repeatedly for permission to install the statues but there was no response from them.

"We wrote a couple of letters to the varsity administration. We even met the Vice Chancellor in March. But when we noticed that the students' union is not being taken seriously, we had to helplessly install the statues in the hope that the youth would be inspired by them," said Shakti, adding that the busts were installed on Tuesday morning.

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