ABVP melodramatic protest for JNU president Kanhaiya
Young students have haughty tempers. But at the end of the day nobody wants blood on his hands. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leadership in Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday made this much clear by resigning from their positions in protest against police charges against JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar. The ABVP students described the anti-national charge against Kanhaiya as virtual `talibanisation' by the Delhi police. The reversal of the roles in the JNU happenings is a new narrative, as the Indian intelligentsia of the university-type describes. "JNU is the most nationalist institution in the country. I do not support the government's stand over the issue. Let the Supreme Court find Kanhaiya guilty and award him life imprisonment. But let the law take its course. There should be no 'Taliban culture' in India," said Pradeep Narwal, former Joint Secretary of JNU unit of ABVP, PTI reported. Narwal, Joint Secretary of JNU unit of ABVP, Rahul Yadav, President of ABVP unit of JNU's School of Social Sciences (SSS), and its Secretary Ankit Hans, reportedly resigned from the BJP student wing. "We are going to fight for JNU. If the law finds Kanhaiya guilty, let him be punished. If Umar Khalid is guilty he should be jailed. But do not attack the entire university, students and teachers. Let there be space for voices of dissent," Narwal added. Ankit Hans, said, "We had ideological differences with the party (BJP) over the issue, so we decided to disassociate ourselves. We want to stand for the university as students and not political leaders of an outfit, whose stand is not acceptable to us". While the ABVP senior leaders are claiming that the three students have been "influenced" to protest against the party and divert the whole issue, Hans said, "This is our individual decision. We have not done this under anybody's influence." All's well that ends well. Kanhaiya appears the smart one by confessing to crime by outsiders. The JNU president has since been lodged in Cell No 3 in the Tihar jail, specifically to prevent him from committing suicide by a possee of 50 policemen. Maybe the answer lies in no student wanting blood on his hands. Melodrama but all right in the interest of higher education that of late seems to be going to dogs.
