A student looking at the cards addressed to the students jailed on sedition charges during an agitation on JNU campus in on Saturday. (Photo: PTI )
A student looking at the cards addressed to the students jailed on sedition charges during an agitation on JNU campus in on Saturday. (Photo: PTI )
It seems that the ongoing controversy at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is not going to end soon as new posters terming “India as a jail of different nationalists” have surfaced on campus.
The poster, condemning the death of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, have reportedly come up in “support of Jammu and Kashmir’s right for self-determination”. Students claimed that the posters were put up in the campus on Friday night at a few places. They believe that the new posters are likely to add fuel to the ongoing controversy over the “anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru sloganeering” in the university campus.
According to sources, the police has started questioning the photostat owner where the controversial posters are alleged to have been photocopied. Four JNU students residing in the Ber Sarai are said to be questioned by the police to track the person behind the posters.
Meanwhile, the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) has distanced itself from the said posters. JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora said that the students’ union has not put up any poster and it may have been put up by one of the ideological groups on the campus. “In JNU there are lots of student groups with different ideology and these posters may have been put up by any one of them. JNU is a campus where there is space for everyone to express his or her opinion. But one thing I wish to clarify that these posters were not put up by JNUSU,” Ms Shora said.
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last week in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy registered over holding of an event at the varsity where which anti-India slogans were alleged to have been raised. His arrest has triggered widespread outrage among students and teachers and has drawn severe criticism from non-BJP parties.
