Protesting against the Centre’s handling of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) row, few students of JU on Tuesday organized a torch rally in Kolkata from where slogans in favour of Afzal Guru and separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani were raised.
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In a communication, the Home Ministry told the West Bengal government to send a report detailing the circumstances leading to the students protests, their acts and the issues raised during the march, official sources said.
They also raised slogans chanting the names of SAR Geelani, a former professor of Delhi University who was arrested on Tuesday for raising anti-India slogans at the Press Club in Delhi.
Thousands of students joined protests, effectively paralysing the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, after Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday following a demonstration that authorities have called anti-Indian.
Calling the anti-national slogans from JU students” rally “an unwanted incident’, JU Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das said, “We all want our university campus should be a place of dialogue in a democratic way”.
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The JNU is now facing protests and counter protests with the police cracking down on students over the anti-India slogans raised earlier to mark the death anniversary of Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru on its campus in the national capital. We are not separatists and love our country. “If any “anti-India” slogans were given by some fringe elements, they don’t depict the spirit of the rally at all”, the organizers said. “Azadi” for us signifies freedom from atrocities, atrocities of the Modi government, and freedom from intolerance”, he added. “The students must raise their voices against the anti-national elements brewing among them and take the matter in their own hands”, he added. “And harm the ongoing movements”.
