But having a debate on fair trail is not anti national provided no anti national slogans raised by JNU students.
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Meanwhile, thousands of students from universities and colleges across New Delhi staged a massive protest here on Thursday to condemn the arrest of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges. “If anyone has violated the law, action will be taken in accordance with law”.
Demanding strong action against students involved in giving anti-national slogans at JNU campus, Amin alleged that students involved in chanting slogans are from an organization closely associated with PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) and hence they have not been touched.
In Hyderabad, a section of students belonging to the University of Hyderabad, which had witnessed a turmoil over the suicide of dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula last month, boycotted classes and took out a march on the varsity campus expressing solidarity with the agitating JNU students.
THREE OFFICE-BEARERS of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) resigned on Wednesday, citing “difference of opinion” on the “current JNU incident” among other issues. They organised a “Nation First Tricolour March” in Bengaluru.
As BJP workers protested, a clash broke out in which stones and water bottles were hurled from both sides.
Police said the rally was not authorized, but allowed the march to proceed to a central space used frequently for public protests. The police failed to step in or control the chaos.
The protesters were part of cultural outfit Makkal Kalai Ilakiya Kazhagam, Revolutionary Students’ Youth Front (RSYS) and five other student organisations. Also the anti national slogans were not preached by them but the ones that came to attend the debate from outside.
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They said that the Indian government ordered the police to enter one the most reputed institutes of higher education in the country and arrest a student. Kovan was arrested previous year under sedition for allegedly insulting Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a song in his campaign against the state government’s liquor policy.
