Reacting to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech on March 3, right wing ABVP on Saturday said that demagogy and rhetorical flourish cannot hide the truth for long. It alleged that “azadi” from hunger or interference were not the slogans raised on the campus on February 9.
“We welcome this newly found faith in the Constitutional machinery as well as on the Constitution of India. Demagogy and rhetorical flourish cannot hide the truth for long. It’s a ploy to dilute the issue by de-contextualising its use and distract from core issue so that the Left bastion remains secure after a short tremor,” ABVP member and JNUSU joint secretary Saurabh Kumar Sharma said. “Kanhaiya’s new terminology is an attempt to divert attention from the rally of February 9. This is an excellent speech to understand how to make speeches full of rhetoric and sham. It is verbose and hollow. He behaved like a true chameleon. It, however, suffers from inconsistencies of fact, logic and reasoning,” added Mr Sharma.
ABVP said that it wants to know if Kanhaiya will “criticize and disassociate” from DSU posters in campus which demand secession of Kashmir, Nagaland and Manipur.
“Nivedita Menon in her lecture has said that ‘India is illegally occupying Kashmir’. We demand that a resolution must be brought in JNUSU condemning such statements and demanding an apology from DSU and Menon. We promise to vote in favour of it,” ABVP said in a statement.
Attacking Mr Kanhaiya Kumar over his statement on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Sharma said “he mocked the Narendra Modi government that it has got only 31 per cent vote and said that 69 per cent people are against him. He must remember that he has got only 1,057 votes against more than 8,000 votes”.
“It goes to 13.21 per cent. By his logic, 87 per cent people oppose him and thereby, he cannot be the voice of the JNU,” the joint secretary said.
