JNU students’ leader arrested for sedition

Detention of JNU student’s union president and slapping of sedition against him is completely a grave injustice with him and this injustice can not be tolerated in any way.

Did they thrust mic to Rajnath Singh, or Smriti Irani forcing them to comment on what Maharaj had to say or what the RSS mouthpiece had written condoning the murder of Gandhi and suggesting how Godse should have killed Nehru?

During the event students allegedly criticised Indian government for hanging Guru and shouted anti-India slogans.

Not just because this is the first time since the Emergency that a JNUSU president has been arrested but also because of the charge of “anti-national” activities used to justify the police action. “Most anti-national people are those who are suppressing the voice of students in this institution”.

“We have taught here for years, we know what it is to be at JNU”.

The Home Minister told the CPI (M), CPI and JD (U) members, who met him yesterday seeking the releasing of JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, that the court would decide whether further action should be taken against those students arrested.

“The police are mindlessly patrolling the campus and the students are being demonised for no fault of theirs”.

The event occurred despite varsity administration having cancelled the permission following a complaint by ABVP members, who termed the activity as “anti-national”. During the event, anti-India slogans were alleged raised, while denouncing the hanging of Guru. “But the ABVP (the student wing of the RSS) is using the power of the state to establish its hegemony and silence others”, Bhambri said.

Over charges against his daughter D Raja said: “Who can question my or my daughter’s integrity?”

The controversy took a BJP-versus-opposition colour with politicians, including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, making a beeline for the campus on Saturday to show solidarity with the “Save JNU” campaign launched by the students’ union and teachers’ association.

The former JNU students who had been arrested during emergency have issued a statement condemning the act of arrest.

After the arrest, the varsity students and teachers protested outside the Vice Chancellor’s office demanding the administration’s intervention into the manner in which students are being compared to “terrorists” and picked up from campus by policemen in plain clothes during alleged raids.

Constrained over the ongoing “anti-national” activities going on in the Jawahar Lal Nehru University, ex-servicemen of June, 1978 batch of the National Defence Academy (NDA) have said that they are finding it hard to be associated to the university and therefore they would return their degrees.

“Whoever raises anti-national slogans and questions the unity of India will not be spared. I have full faith in the constitution and I always say that Kashmir is an integral part of India”, said Kumar, who is from the All India Students Federation, a Left-linked students outfit.

“It is very sad that political leaders belonging to BJP and some others are being killed, and people are getting disturbed”, the minister said. On Friday, he had said the Modi government was “bullying” the institution.