Anti-India slogans in JNU were raised by our own men: Former ABVP VP

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Anti-India slogans in JNU were raised by our own men: Former ABVP VP

Goraiya and Narwai said ABVP members raised ant-India solgans at the JNU event to divert the media attention from the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula

Thursday January 17, 2019 6:13 PM, ummid.com News Network

New Delhi: Two days after Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and seven students from Jammu and Kashmir, former JNU ABVP unit vice-president Jatin Goraiya and former joint-secretary Pradeep Narwal claimed that the anti-India sloganeering on February 9, 2016 on the varsity campus was by their own men.

Goraiya and Narwai said ABVP members raised ant-India solgans at the JNU event to divert the media attention from the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula.

Vemula, a PhD student at the University of Hyderabad and author of the book "Caste is Not a Rumour" had committed suicide on January 17, 2016 blaming the university administration of expelling him at the behest of ABVP - students' wing of the BJP.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, they claimed that the students seen in videos raising “Pakistan Zindabad" and “Bharat tere tukde honge" slogans belonged to the ABVP.

The Delhi Police on Monday filed a 1200 page charge sheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president, Umar Khalid and others in a sedition case lodged in 2016.

The Charge sheet also name former students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during the Feb 9 event that was organised to mark the death anniversary of the Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

Both Jatin Goraiya and Pradeep Narwal left the ABVP, immediately after the controversy broke out in Feb 2016. Goraiya stated that he left the ABVP because he was against the ABVP’s stand on Dalits.

“As we are Dalits, we were told repeatedly to appear for TV interviews and defend ABVP after Vemula’s suicide. But, we refused to do so since they kept referring to him as a terrorist. With the February 9 event, they saw an opportunity to divert attention,” Narwal said at the conference.

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