The slugfest over last week's violence at DU's Ramjas College has snowballed into another nationalist-versus-liberal confrontation, with Kargil martyr's daughter and DU student Gurmehar Kaur coming under fierce attack from the saffron camp for her social media post condemning the "violence by ABVP" and an earlier post in which she said war, not Pakistan, had killed her father.

Comparing Kaur with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, BJP MP from Mysuru Pratap Simha tweeted on Monday, "At least Dawood did not use the crutches of his father's name to justify his anti-national stand". Hours later, Union minister Kiren Rijiju waded in with a tweet suggesting Kaur was being influenced. "Who's polluting this young girl's mind? A strong arm (sic) force prevents a war. India never attacked anyone but aweak India was always invaded," Rijiju tweeted, drawing sharp reactions from a section of the Twitterati that criticised him for undermining her freedom of expression.