Sharma’s reaction came after Gandhi along with other Congress leaders met President Pranab Mukherjee on the Jawaharlal Nehru University row.
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No citizen of the country can accept the anti-national slogans that advocate terrorists at a prestigious university like the JNU.
The memorandum also linked the JNU protests to the demonstrations at the University of Hyderabad and Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India, and said students holding views contrary to the government were being threatened and bullied.
However, the matter took an ugly turn when the Youth Congress workers blackened Mr Choudhary’s nameplate at his home in Baytoo and smeared the walls with the slogan “Rahul Gandhi Zindabad”.
However a court in Lucknow has sought police report by February 27 in a case filed against Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over their alleged support to the anti-national elements in JNU case.
In a blog, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah attacked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of “supporting forces inimical to India’s interests”.
The more immediate threat is to Kanhaiya Kumar, a student from Bihar, who was arrested on charges of sedition for a speech which didn’t have any “anti-national” material.
“Congress which is searching for its ground is attacking Modi government in a planned manner and making all efforts to repay favour for its support to ruling SP government’s support”, BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sadhvi Prachi, who talked to the media at the university gate, said Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should tell the nation the definition of nationalism.
He added that Mr Gandhi’s patriotic credentials are “too strong” for BJP to criticise, pointing out how his father Rajiv Gandhi and grandmother Indira Gandhi had laid down their lives to safeguard integrity of the country.
He also accused the NDA government and PM Narendra Modi of failing to keep its promises made to the people, prior to Lok Sabha elections.
‘Do you want to partition nation once again by giving a free run to separatists who are misusing freedom of expression, ‘ Shah asked Rahul.
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Rahul Gandhi also criticised the Central Government for removing Assam from the special status State category made by the UPA Government.
