It may be recalled that pro-Hindutva students’ outfit Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had objected against an event organised by some other students groups of JNU to commemorate the death anniversary Kashmiri national Afzal Guru, who was hanged secretly by Indian state on February 9, 2012.
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Vice Chancellor M. Jagdish Kumar on Wednesday said a proctorial committee would look into the matter of violent clashes between two students groups last night after an argument over the capital punishment to Afzal Guru. “We can not have anarchy in our universities the hanging was after a long-drawn judicial process”, the Congress spokesperson said.
After a group shouted slogans hailing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s “martyrdom” during a press conference on its premises, police filed an FIR on charges of sedition & criminal conspiracy against SAR Geelani & unknown people.
Amidst the controversy engulfing the Jawaharlal National University in the national capital, the JNU Students’ Union president has been arrested on Friday. “They raised anti-India slogans and for freedom of Kashmir”, he alleged.
Shopkeepers in Surat even held a meeting and decided that they will be filing a column in local Hindi, Gujrati and English newspapers that they would not be paying the income tax as long as the government doesn’t shut down JNU. “It is important to note that the slogans were not raised by members of Left organisations or JNU students”, the statement said. “On the basis of the report, the varsity will take appropriate action”, he said.
Briefing about the “incomplete information”, the varsity Registrar Zutshi said, “There was no where mentioned in the permission request that the event will be on Afzal Guru, they just said that they wanted to organise a cultural event”. Such things were happening in JNU.
The decision of ordering an enquiry was taken by the VC after he met the agitating students. If there is anything antinational, we will act according to the law.
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Defending the event, one of the organisers alleged ABVP made the whole incident controversial. “When I got to know that it is a protest, we chose to cancel the programme as it is administration’s responsibility to ensure peace and calm on campus”. Why weren’t they campaigning when a fellow student was forced to commit suicide? He also filed a complaint with the police on Thursday.
