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JNU registrar exposes Kanhaiya
Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU Students Union president, had objected to cancellation of permission for the controversial event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi has claimed. Kanhaiya denied any such meeting took place.
New Delhi: Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU Students Union president, had objected to cancellation of permission for the controversial event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi has claimed. Kanhaiya denied any such meeting took place.
Zutshi, deposing before the high-power inquiry committee constituted by Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, is believed to have said that Kumar was against the authorities' decision to cancel permission of the February 9 event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
"I had called a meeting of JNSU in my office at 3 pm on February 9 to discuss the route for the new bus acquired by JNU for disabled students. Kanhaiya Kumar and Rama Naga (JNUSU General Secretary) reached first. Around 3 pm, we had a discussion on the bus route. After 10 minutes, Saurav Sharma (ABVP member and JNSU joint secretary) also came. We all discussed the bus route for 10 minutes," Zutshi said.
"Sharma later showed me a pamphlet regarding the 'cultural event' on 'judicial killing of Afzal Guru' and said some of the students are organising this event today (February 9, 2016) at 5 pm at Sabarmati Dhaba," Zutshi told the committee. The JNU Registrar has further maintained that when the varsity decided to withdraw the permission, Kumar had called him objecting to the cancellation. Meanwhile, Adarsh Sharma, the president of the 'Poorvanchal Sena' who had announced Rs 11 lakh to anyone who shoots Kanhaiya Kumar has been arrested after questioning in New Delhi.
2-3 universities spoiling image: Venkaiah
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said out of 740 universities in the country, happenings in two or three of them are spoiling "image", in remarks that came against the backdrop of controversies in JNU and Hyderabad Central University. We should not allow such things to happen in future," he said at the 'Happening Haryana' global investor summit.
JNUSU president Kanhaiya was slapped with sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-national slogans during the protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on his third death anniversary last month.
Naidu said "unfortunately" in India there is also a tendency in "some the section of media" to blow things out of proportion and make things if everything is going wrong. The Shiv Sena has publicly shared its dissatisfaction with the handling of the case ofKanhaiya, warning that "It's time to think about why so many Kanhaiyas are being born" and "if the disappointment of the youth keeps growing, there will be 'blasts' within the country even without Pakistani terrorists".
