Four years later: 9th February 2016 JNU row and India’s Reichstag fire moment
The 9th February 2016 JNU row provided the BJP-led government of Narendra Modi an opportunity to create India’s own Reichstag fire to distract the people.
The 9th February 2016 JNU row provided the BJP-led government of Narendra Modi an opportunity to create India’s own Reichstag fire to distract the people.
A hastily filed 1200-page long chargesheet after three years of the JNU fiasco is actually a sign that the Modi regime is in a frantic mode at present.
After the JNU incident, political trends of a lot of individuals and parties involved in the case has changed since the release of Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and Kanhaiya Kumar, but the repressive nature of the state has remained unchanged. Now they have used JNU administration to ‘punish the revolting students’ by imposing fines and … Read more
It has been weeks since the arrest of Professor SAR Geelani on the charge of sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar, and later Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. It should be noted that Geelani was arrested from an Urdu festival that he was attending at the University of Delhi, North Campus. It should also be noted … Read more