Jawaharlal Nehru University students
Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya with student supporters on
Tuesday have brunt the copy of the university panel report that ordered
penalties and fines against them. Kanhaiya Kumar, the student leader of JNU
earlier has threatened to go through such actions.
Also, the students will start a relay hunger strike
against ‘disciplinary action from expulsion to fines’ of the university, said
reports. Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya were accused of anti-nationalist sloganeering
in the university campus on February 9 this year and also were in jail custody
for 20 days.
The report was burnt by the JNU students on Tuesday
after Kanhaiya attended a programme regarding educational institute campus unrest
and political storm. The university panel report have suspended Kumar and
Khalid for a semester showing ‘indiscipline’ as the reason and also fined with
Rs. 20,000 and 10,000 respectively.
“We will not abide by the committee that was
rejected by us ever since its formation. We will take out a rally and start an
indefinite hunger strike tomorrow. The arbitrary punishment given to students
should be rolled back,” Kanhaiya said addressing the crowd of supporters.
JNU has rusticated Bhattacharya, Khalid and Mujeeb
Gattoo, fined 14 more students and barred two former students’ to enter in the
campus who was found associated with the agitation. Report is the students have
till May 15 to follow the university orders.
According to reports, Kanhaiya also declared that he
intends to write a book on his journey from his home, Bihar, to be the student
union leader at JNU, sedition charges and the following trivia. He informed
that the book will come out in Hindi and English and he will complete writing it
before the next semester.
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