JOIN USCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi along with his party colleagues and Left leaders joined the sedition debate on Saturday at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus.
Members of the BJP’s student body Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) charged at Rahul’s motorcade with black flags, with some even trying to block his way. “I’m proud that in my country ABVP has right to wave black flags at me,” he said.
JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was charged was arrested on Friday and slapped with sedition and conspiracy charges for his “involvement” in the protest held on Tuesday to mark the death anniversary of Afzal Guru.
Rahul accused the BJP-led government of “suppressing” students’ voice and said the “most anti-nationals are people, who are suppressing the voice of students in JNU”.
Rahul compared the unrest in JNU with events leading to the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in University of Hyderabad.