The AV Feb 20 report on the recent incidents in Jawaharlal Nehru University reveals a very disturbing leftist psychology.
The so-called cultural event was celebrating the life of Afzal Guru who attacked Indian Parliament with slogans “Tum kitne Afzal maaroge, har ghar se Afzal niklega – how many Afzal can you kill, there will be Afzal from every home.” If this is not anti-Indian, anti-national one would not know what is.
JNU is known to be the hotbed of extreme leftist ideology. But this time the students have gone over the top. I have read the entire speech made on the occasion by Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the JNU students union, in the internet.
If anything the language of the speech is seditious in tone. It is this reason the interim report of the university inquiry committee on the incidents has recommended debarring of these students from academic activities.
Kumar and his supporters were agitating against socio-economic problems. They have been there in India for thousands of years.
The UPA led by the Congress Party ruled India from 2004 to 2014. In fact the Congress Party has been in power for most of the time since independence. What did these so-called socialists do to resolve these issues during all these years?
The Bihar state is run by a socialist party led by Nitish Kumar. He was in power even before the last election.
What has he done to resolve caste system in that state? Why are these so-called socialist students not agitating against him?
Jatindra Saha
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