NEW DELHI: A group of youths on Sunday tried to vandalise the CPM headquarters in the national capital over the ongoing controversy over an event at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The Delhi Police has detained one of the protesters.
While the CPM said the attackers were RSS and BJP workers and had hurled stones, the police said the detainee claimed to be a member of the outfit Aam Aadmi Sena. According to deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal, three youths came to the office of the CPM where they sprayed black ink on the wall of the office building. While, two of them managed to flee, one was held by CPM workers and handed over to police.
“The youth, identified as Sushant Khosla, told the police that he is a member of the Aam Aadmi Sena. We have initiated legal action in connection with the matter and investigation has been taken up,” said Mr Narwal.
CPM general Sitaram Yechury said, “They tried to write slogans like Pakistan Zindabad at our office board. They were pursued by our comrades and one of them was caught and handed over to police.”
CPI national secretary D. Raja said, “The Sangh Parivar cannot subvert our democratic political system and the constitutional arrangement of our polity. If they have anything to argue, they can but they should not resort to uncivilised attacks.”
Cops look for Raja’s daughter
CPI leader D. Raja on Sunday defended his AISF leader-daughter, whose name figures in the list of JNU students accu-sed of raising anti-India slogans, and hit out at political rivals for making “irrational and baseless” allegations in this regard. There were reports that the police was on the lookout for the CPI leader’s daughter.
The CPI national secretary dismissed charges that Opposition parties are seeking political gain out of the situation at JNU and claimed the Left Front-Congress are “extremely concerned” over the developments at the varsity and fighting to protect its interest.
“I know my daughter better than anybody else. She is a leader of AISF. And anyone who knows history of AISF, its ideology and politics, they will never make such baseless, irrational, absurd allegations,” Raja said.
