"The ABVP has been trying to saffronise the AU after targeting JNU and HCU and other educational institutes. They are targeting a students' union leader there after she refused to allow saffronisation attempt there.
"The RSS-BJP should keep off from AU. Action should be taken against those trying to create tension there," CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy demanded.
Reddy claimed AU students' union president Richa Singh had recently not allowed "communally vocal" BJP MP Yogi Adityanath to visit the campus, which, it added, "irritated" ABVP, resulting in launch of a "vicious" character assassination campaign against the AUSU chief.
A PhD student, Richa, who faces a varsity probe into validity of her admission as a research scholar, had launched a massive agitation to protest the BJP MP's entry into the campus last year.
The AUSU leader has claimed she is being harassed by the varsity administration since.