New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other political leaders joined the protest at the JNU campus demanding the release of arrested students union president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Mr Gandhi also attended a meet organised by JNUSU demanding the “immediate and unconditional release of the students’ union president, end to police raj on the campus and witch-hunting of JNU students.”
“There was a person in Germany named Hitler who had destroyed millions of people. If only he had listened to others, may be that country would not have gone through that much of pain,” Mr Gandhi said to loud cheers by Left-leaning students.
Mr Gandhi was shown black flags by a group of ABVP members. He asserted that “most anti-national people are those who are suppressing the voice of students in this institution”.
While admitting that anti-India sentiment is unacceptable, Mr Gandhi said the right to dissent and debate is an essential ingredient of democracy.
CPI MP gets threat calls
CPI MP D. Raja on Saturday claimed that he has received calls carrying threats to his daughter, who is a student activist in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, whose students union chief has been arrested on sedition charges.
He said on late Friday night he got a call from a man who spoke in Hindi and asked him why he was “fighting” with BJP and ABVP.
Magisterial probe sought
Leaders of Left parties and JD(U) on Saturday called on chief minister Arvind Kejriwal here seeking a magisterial probe to establish the “authenticity” of evidence produced against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
The delegation termed the on-going developments at the JNU as a “political conspiracy” by Centre to terrorise the students, “reminding of days of Emergency”.
