Conspiracy charges against JNU by ABVP

Drawing parallel between the actions against students in JNU and events leading to the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad University, he said the question is why a student is “not allowed to say what he believes in”.

The students’ union declared a strike in the university from Monday onwards. Slogan of “Azad Kasmir” and “Kashmir Hamara hai” has been raised by the students.

Left leaders are questioning the authenticity of a video clip which purportedly shows anti-national slogans raised by a group of persons on JNU.

According to him, the Centre was unnecessarily involving in the affairs of the university. “Mr. Rahul Gandhi seemed to have turned Congress ideology on its head from the days of fighting against anti-national forces to now saying this is an astounding new definition of nationalism”, said Kohli. “Don’t let those bullies push you around”, Gandhi said. What did he do?

He said late last night he got a call from a man who spoke in Hindi and asked him why he was “fighting” with BJP and ABVP.

Earlier in the day, Yechury, who was himself a JNUSU leader, met union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and demanded the release of the JNUSU leader.

“We have told the Home Minister that what is occurring is worse than Emergency and all students should not be painted anti-national and the footage should be properly scanned before action”. The most important thing we have is the voice of our people.

He was accompanied by CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D Raja and Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi, besides Ajay Maken and Anand Sharma from the Congress. The ABVP mobbed Gandhi’s motorcade when he was leaving the campus and the Congress leader had to be escorted out in a different vehicle from an undisclosed gate. The chief minister later ordered a magisterial inquiry into the matter. “But the guilty will not be spared”, said Singh.

Rahul said he will be happy to see even people from RSS and BJP express their opinion.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the one common thread in the spate of controversies dominating headlines from university campuses, be it Delhi, Hyderabad or the JNU. “It shows his mental bankruptcy…Rahul Gandhi and his friends are speaking in the voice LeT terrorist Hafiz Sayeed who had tweeted in support of anti-India event in JNU”, said national secretary Shrikant Sharma.

Meanwhile, a group of retired servicemen of the June 1978 batch of the National Defence Academy, who are recipients of the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from JNU have written a letter to the varsity vice chancellor and said they are unhappy at the ongoing anti-national activities like celebration of Afzal Guru inside the campus.