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.
Though Kanhaiya Kumar is an accused in the Delhi Police’s chargesheet on the 9 February 2016 JNU issue, his political views are not in favour of democracy.
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.
A massive clash broke between the students of Delhi University (DU) and the ABVP goons, who were paid by the RSS head office in Central Delhi to carry out a violent assault, including sexual abuse of women, at DU Wednesday afternoon. The students and teachers of Delhi University’s North Campus were protesting against the violence unleashed … Read more
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
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The history of student movements and people involved in student movement being branded anti-national is not recent, but … 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