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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Saturday to meet students who have been protesting against the arrest of their leader Kanhaiya Kumar. Kanhaiya was arrested on Friday over a protest organized in the JNU campus on February 9 against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. He has been booked on charges of sedition.
"A youngster expressed himself and the government says he is an anti-national. The most anti-national people are the people who are suppressing the voice of this institution," Gandhi told students.
"They do not understand that by crushing you they are making you stronger," he added. ABVP workers showed black flags and raised slogans against Gandhi when her visited the campus.
READ ALSO:All you need about JNU's Afzal Guru protest row
Gandhi was the latest politician to visit the JNU today. Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, Congress leader Ajay Maken and Anand Sharma, and Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi also visited the campus and met students. The leaders later met Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking a magisterial probe to establish the "authenticity" of evidence produced against Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been booked for sedition.
The leaders termed the ongoing developments at the JNU as a "political conspiracy" by Centre to terrorise the students, "reminding of days of Emergency".
"The evidence based on which this conspiracy has been hatched is wrong. There is need to have an independent probe to check authenticity of the evidences," Yechury told reporters after the meeting, which took place after the delegation first met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Tyagi defended Kanhaiya claiming the JNU students' union president had not raised "anti-India" slogans and he has done "nothing wrong" by criticising RSS, BJP and HRD minister Smriti Irani.
Kanhaiya's arrest come against the backdrop of a controversy at JNU, which erupted earlier this week, when some students had pasted posters across the campus inviting people to a protest march against Afzal Guru's hanging and in solidarity with "struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self-determination" at the university 's Sabarmati dhaba.
The students organized the protest despite being denied permission by the university administration following a complaint by ABVP members.
Many Union ministers have dubbed the event as anti-national and called for strong action against the students who took part in it.
"If anyone raises anti-India slogans and tries to raise question on nation's unity and integrity, they will not be spared," home minister Rajnath Singh said in New Delhi. "Stringent action must be taken against those who raised anti-India slogans in JNU," he added.
READ ALSO:Will not spare those who raise anti-India slogans, Rajnath says
"The protest at JNU is anti-national and it amounts to betrayal to the country and should be dealt with strictly. Anyone who raises slogans in favour of Afzal Guru and other terrorists, strict action will be initiated against them," Union chemicals and fertilizers minister Ananth Kumar said in Bengaluru.
Former Army men who are Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumnihave threatened to return their degreessaying they "find it difficult" to be associated with an institution that has become a "hub of anti-national activities".
The JNU administration had already ordered a "disciplinary" inquiry into the incident saying, the act of students going ahead with the event despite cancellation of permission amounted to indiscipline and any talk about country's disintegration cannot be "national".
Rahul Gandhi visits JNU, says those suppressing institution's voice are anti-national - Times of India
"A youngster expressed himself and the government says he is an anti-national. The most anti-national people are the people who are suppressing the voice of this institution," Gandhi told students.
"They do not understand that by crushing you they are making you stronger," he added. ABVP workers showed black flags and raised slogans against Gandhi when her visited the campus.
READ ALSO:All you need about JNU's Afzal Guru protest row
Gandhi was the latest politician to visit the JNU today. Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, Congress leader Ajay Maken and Anand Sharma, and Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi also visited the campus and met students. The leaders later met Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking a magisterial probe to establish the "authenticity" of evidence produced against Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been booked for sedition.
The leaders termed the ongoing developments at the JNU as a "political conspiracy" by Centre to terrorise the students, "reminding of days of Emergency".
"The evidence based on which this conspiracy has been hatched is wrong. There is need to have an independent probe to check authenticity of the evidences," Yechury told reporters after the meeting, which took place after the delegation first met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Tyagi defended Kanhaiya claiming the JNU students' union president had not raised "anti-India" slogans and he has done "nothing wrong" by criticising RSS, BJP and HRD minister Smriti Irani.
Kanhaiya's arrest come against the backdrop of a controversy at JNU, which erupted earlier this week, when some students had pasted posters across the campus inviting people to a protest march against Afzal Guru's hanging and in solidarity with "struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self-determination" at the university 's Sabarmati dhaba.
The students organized the protest despite being denied permission by the university administration following a complaint by ABVP members.
Many Union ministers have dubbed the event as anti-national and called for strong action against the students who took part in it.
"If anyone raises anti-India slogans and tries to raise question on nation's unity and integrity, they will not be spared," home minister Rajnath Singh said in New Delhi. "Stringent action must be taken against those who raised anti-India slogans in JNU," he added.
READ ALSO:Will not spare those who raise anti-India slogans, Rajnath says
"The protest at JNU is anti-national and it amounts to betrayal to the country and should be dealt with strictly. Anyone who raises slogans in favour of Afzal Guru and other terrorists, strict action will be initiated against them," Union chemicals and fertilizers minister Ananth Kumar said in Bengaluru.
Former Army men who are Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) alumnihave threatened to return their degreessaying they "find it difficult" to be associated with an institution that has become a "hub of anti-national activities".
The JNU administration had already ordered a "disciplinary" inquiry into the incident saying, the act of students going ahead with the event despite cancellation of permission amounted to indiscipline and any talk about country's disintegration cannot be "national".
Rahul Gandhi visits JNU, says those suppressing institution's voice are anti-national - Times of India
