New Delhi: A day after JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested for sedition, Union home minister Rajnath Singh reiterated that “stringent action will be taken against those who raised anti-India slogans” on the campus.
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The row turned into an ideological battle between the BJP and the Left, with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi lending the Opposition support and comparing the Modi government with Hitler’s regime.
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The arrest of Kumar, leader of a CPI-affiliated outfit, set the two sides on the warpath, with the government declaring that the varsity cannot be allowed to be a “hub of anti-national” activities. Students have threatened a strike if Kumar was not freed.
