NEw Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi has turned into a political battlefield after the arrest of JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's youth wing ABVP will meet the University Vice-Chancellor on Sunday to ask him to stop politicians from entering the campus premises. This comes after a beeline of politicians made their way to the campus after protests broke out there.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has slammed leaders for politicising the issue.
"I appeal all political parties that whenever such situation arises where anti-India slogans are raised, entire nation must speak in one voice," said Singh.
On Saturday, several Congress and Left leaders visited the JNU campus to show solidarity with the students protesting againt Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest. In a hard-hitting attack on the Narendra Modi government over JNU student's arrest, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi virtually drew parallel of it with the regime of Hitler, accusing NDA of "suppressing" students' voice and telling students "don't let those bullies push you around".
Rahul, who visited the JNU campus along with Delhi PCC chief Ajay Maken and former Union Minister Anand Sharma to express solidarity with students agitating against the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case, was shown black flag by members BJP's student wing ABVP.
Going hammer and tongs against the government, Rahul said, "People who suppress voice of this institute are anti-national. They are trying to crush the voice of the youth. I was in Hyderabad a few days back and these same people or their leaders said that Rohith Vemula was an anti-national."
Rahul's visit to JNU today came a day after Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest in a sedition
case over an event at the varsity campus against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, sparking massive outrage among students and criticism from non-BJP parties which dubbed it as an "emergency-like" situation.
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