<p>The Left parties and organisations have planned to stage three-day dharnas across the State from Tuesday to protest against branding them as anti-nationals and to condemn the right wing’s reported attack on the constitutional rights of citizens.</p>.<p> <br />At a joint press conference in the City on Monday, CPM State secretary and former legislator G V Sreerama Reddy said Left parties such as CPI, SUCI (C), CPM, AIFB, CPI (ML) Lib have chalked out plans to stage dharnas and hold open conferences.<br /><br />The Left parties will stage dharnas and organise public meetings in front of Town Hall in Bengaluru on Thursday in which intellectuals, writers, students among others would take part. <br /><br />They have also planned to hold such dharnas in the districts also.<br /><br />Reddy said the BJP had been trying hard to saffronise the universities and it had chosen central universities in the first phase as they directly come under its control. <br /><br />Referring to the JNU row, Reddy said BJP and RSS were trying to impose their right-wing agenda in the higher education institutions. Those present at the press meet said raising slogans against communal forces does not amount to being anti-national. <br /><br />They sought the intervention of the President as they no longer believe in the rule of the BJP-led NDA and demanded a ban on the ABVP as it was polarising students in university campuses on the lines of religion.<br /><br />They demanded the release of students’ leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges, immediately. <br /><br />The CPM also condemned the ABVP for its demand to arrest a few professors of Kuvempu University as they addressed students during a rally to protest the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar recently.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The Left parties and organisations have planned to stage three-day dharnas across the State from Tuesday to protest against branding them as anti-nationals and to condemn the right wing’s reported attack on the constitutional rights of citizens.</p>.<p> <br />At a joint press conference in the City on Monday, CPM State secretary and former legislator G V Sreerama Reddy said Left parties such as CPI, SUCI (C), CPM, AIFB, CPI (ML) Lib have chalked out plans to stage dharnas and hold open conferences.<br /><br />The Left parties will stage dharnas and organise public meetings in front of Town Hall in Bengaluru on Thursday in which intellectuals, writers, students among others would take part. <br /><br />They have also planned to hold such dharnas in the districts also.<br /><br />Reddy said the BJP had been trying hard to saffronise the universities and it had chosen central universities in the first phase as they directly come under its control. <br /><br />Referring to the JNU row, Reddy said BJP and RSS were trying to impose their right-wing agenda in the higher education institutions. Those present at the press meet said raising slogans against communal forces does not amount to being anti-national. <br /><br />They sought the intervention of the President as they no longer believe in the rule of the BJP-led NDA and demanded a ban on the ABVP as it was polarising students in university campuses on the lines of religion.<br /><br />They demanded the release of students’ leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges, immediately. <br /><br />The CPM also condemned the ABVP for its demand to arrest a few professors of Kuvempu University as they addressed students during a rally to protest the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar recently.<br /><br /></p>
